In Memory: Julie Anne Peters

By Gayleen Rabakukk

Julie Anne Peters, the critically-acclaimed, award-winning author of more than a dozen books for young adults and children died March 21 at the age of 71.

Peters first book, The Stinky Sneakers Contest (Little Brown, 1992), was plucked from the slushpile by Megan Tingley, her first fiction acquisition. They worked on several middle grade books together in the 1990s. Then, in the early 2000s Peters shifted to writing for young adults, “she found her true voice,” Tingley told ...