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Nancy Willard
| born |
June 26, 1936
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| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
Ann Arbor, Michigan, The United States |
| genre |
Children's Books, Poetry
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| influences |
William Blake |
about this author
NANCY WILLARD is an award-winning children's author, poet, and essayist who received the Newbery Medal in 1982 for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She has written dozens of volumes of children's fiction and poetry, including The Flying Bed, Sweep Dreams, and Cinderella's Dress. She is also the author of two novels for adults, Things Invisible to See and Sister Water, and twelve books of poetry, including Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems. She lives with her husband, photographer Eric Lindbloom, and teaches at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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