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Maria van Lieshout

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Maria was born and raised in the Netherlands, and studied graphic design at George Washington University in DC. Maria's historical graphic novel Song of a Blackbird, about a female artist in the Amsterdam resistance during WWII, was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award Honor and it was longlisted for the National Book Award.
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