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Though I've been writing since I was nine years old, I didn't publish beyond my high school literary journal until I was a new mother. My first published essay was in Iowa Woman; subsequently, I published short stories in dozens of literary magazines—learning, always, what worked or what didn't by reading far more than I wrote.

My first book, A SLANT OF SUN, a memoir, was a National Book Award finalist. My second, INTO THE TANGLE OF FRIENDSHIP, was supported by an NEA grant. These gifts give a writer momentum, and hope. To date I've published five memoirs, an autobiography of a river called FLOW: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PHILADELPHIA'S SCHUYLKILL RIVER, and the first of what will be four young adult novels for HarperTeen. UNDERCOVER has been n...more



The crowd at Drexel University has put together an extremely interesting program for this very week, and I'm so happy to be part of it. On Wednesday, at 2 o'clock, I'll be joining Rita Williams-Garcia and Eliot Schrefer for a panel called Strange and Familiar Places in Young Adult Fiction (see below). But the entire week is full and rich, and I hope you'll double click on the poster above to f... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.57 · 2,968 ratings · 883 reviews · 22 distinct works · Similar authors
Small Damages
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 614 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
Undercover
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
You Are My Only
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
Nothing but Ghosts
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
Dangerous Neighbors
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
House of Dance
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
A Slant of Sun: One Child's...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions
The Heart is Not a Size
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Into the Tangle of Friendsh...
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
Ghosts in the Garden: Refle...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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ZENOBIA: The Curious Book of Business (Business & Investing)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm
Description: an Alice in Wonderland-like fable about the power of the imagination (and courage) in corporate America
FLOW: The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River (History)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm
Description: a hybrid work of history and prose poetry, an autobiography of a river
UNDERCOVER (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm
Description: the story of an aspiring high school poet who sheds a cloak of social invisibility and finally becomes herself

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“Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.”
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“Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.”
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“Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.”
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