Emily Whitman





Emily Whitman

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born
Boulder, CO, The United States

gender
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influences
Sendak, E. Nesbit, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien


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Emily Whitman grew up in Boulder, Colorado in a household overflowing with kittens, hamsters and books. Her mother read her endless books and poems, her father tirelessly told stories into a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and her two sisters joined in perpetual games of make-believe. After inhaling all the Sendak, E. Nesbit, C.S. Lewis and Tolkien she could find, she went to Harvard and studied comparative religions for a while before graduating summa cum laude in History and Literature. Graduate work in history at U.C. Berkeley was interrupted by moving to Oregon with a six-week-old baby, and she became a full-time mom. Once her children were in school, she worked in library reference, led storytimes, and wrote for educational publishers. Rad...more


Average rating: 3.63 · 1,525 ratings · 304 reviews · 2 distinct works
Radiant Darkness
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 984 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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Wildwing
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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“You come back here, you good-for-nothing! Come help me drag these ailing bones."
The old man flees toward the Lethe as fast as his rickety legs will carry him. Like an army scouring the countryside, she surges in his wake, flattening grasses and bushes as she goes. The gap narrows.
"Don't you recognize me?" she hollers. "It's me, your sweetie pie!”
Emily Whitman, Radiant Darkness

“An alder tree can't become an oak at will. A maple can't pick up its roots like legs, and stride, step by powerful step, along the shore to find the sun. And everything that ever said otherwise--all those years of school, and the plays and moving pictures that promise you can be someone else, something more--they were all lies.”
Emily Whitman, Wildwing

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