Kathryn Reiss
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Kathryn Reiss is an American author of award-winning children's and young adult fiction
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Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel.
She is the author of many novels of suspense for middle grade and young adult readers, among them: Time Windows (1991), The Glass House People (1992), Dreadful Sorry (1993), Pale Phoenix (1994), PaperQuake (1998), Riddle of the Prairie Bride (2001), The Strange Case of Baby H (2002) , Paint By Magic (2002), Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge: A Ghost Story (April 2004), Blackthorn Winter: A Murder Mystery (2006), The Tangled Web: A Julie Mystery ( American Girl, 2009), and Puzzle of the Paper Daughter: A Julie Mystery (American Girl, 2010), "The Silver Guitar: A Julie Mystery " (American Girl, 2011), and "A Bundle of Trouble: A Rebecca Mystery" (American GIrl, 2011).
Time Windows was selected by the American Library Association
as a "Best Book for Young Adults," received YALSA's "Popular Paperback for Young Adults" award and the State of Maryland's "Blackeyed Susan Young Reader Medal." Dreadful Sorry, also a YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults, was a featured selection of the Junior Library Guild and was named "Pick of the Crop" in The School Library Journal starred review. Pale Phoenix and Paperquake were nominated for the Mystery Writers of America
's prestigious "Edgar Allan Poe" award, and PaperQuake additionally was named one of YALSA’s ‘Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults.’ Paint By Magic, a time travel
mystery, won a place on VOYA’s ‘Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers’ and is an International School Librarians Association honor book.
Ms. Reiss has been a Writer in Residence for the Princeton Arts Council, a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Writers, and has been a featured speaker with (among others) Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Northern California Library Association, The International Reading Association, Fresno County Office of Education, California Reading Association, The American Library Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English. She lives in Northern California with her husband and five children, and teaches Creative Writing at Mills College.
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
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Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel.
She is the author of many novels of suspense for middle grade and young adult readers, among them: Time Windows (1991), The Glass House People (1992), Dreadful Sorry (1993), Pale Phoenix (1994), PaperQuake (1998), Riddle of the Prairie Bride (2001), The Strange Case of Baby H (2002) , Paint By Magic (2002), Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge: A Ghost Story (April 2004), Blackthorn Winter: A Murder Mystery (2006), The Tangled Web: A Julie Mystery ( American Girl, 2009), and Puzzle of the Paper Daughter: A Julie Mystery (American Girl, 2010), "The Silver Guitar: A Julie Mystery " (American Girl, 2011), and "A Bundle of Trouble: A Rebecca Mystery" (American GIrl, 2011).
Time Windows was selected by the American Library Association
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....
as a "Best Book for Young Adults," received YALSA's "Popular Paperback for Young Adults" award and the State of Maryland's "Blackeyed Susan Young Reader Medal." Dreadful Sorry, also a YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults, was a featured selection of the Junior Library Guild and was named "Pick of the Crop" in The School Library Journal starred review. Pale Phoenix and Paperquake were nominated for the Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
's prestigious "Edgar Allan Poe" award, and PaperQuake additionally was named one of YALSA’s ‘Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults.’ Paint By Magic, a time travel
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
mystery, won a place on VOYA’s ‘Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers’ and is an International School Librarians Association honor book.
Ms. Reiss has been a Writer in Residence for the Princeton Arts Council, a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Writers, and has been a featured speaker with (among others) Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Northern California Library Association, The International Reading Association, Fresno County Office of Education, California Reading Association, The American Library Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English. She lives in Northern California with her husband and five children, and teaches Creative Writing at Mills College.
External links
- Kathryn Reiss -- Official Website
- Kathryn Reiss - faculty page, Mills College