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Debby Dahl Edwardson

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gender

female

website

http://www.debbydahledwardson.com/

genre

Young Adult

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My name is Debby and I am a writer. I write stories for young people.

If you haven't seen me, it's because I live far far away and do, indeed, write from the top of the world: Barrow, Alaska, to be exact, the northernmost community on the North American Continent.

I've lived here pretty much all of my adult life—thirty years (don’t do the math!) and this place and its people have shaped who I am as a writer. My husband is Inupiaq (Eskimo) and most of the stories I write are set within this cultural context. It is not the culture I was born into but it is the one I belong to, the one that has become home to me as a human being and as an artist.

As we all do, I write what I know, and through knowing it in my own way, make it my own, something...more

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Books by Debby Dahl Edwardson

Average rating: 3.72 · 350 ratings · 113 reviews · 3 distinct works

	My Name is Not Easy 3.69 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Blessing's Bead 3.68 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Whale Snow by Debby Dahl Edwardson, Annie Patterson (Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:

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