Louise Plummer
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Louise Plummer is a noted author young-adult fiction and a retired associate professor of English for Brigham Young University
. She lives in New York, New York with her writer/professor husband Tom. Together they have four sons.
The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota
. While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English. They both took positions at BYU in 1985, the same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest
, leading to its publication. The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library
and the International Reading Association
.
Awards received by subsequent books include Her second novel, ALA
Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council
Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters
Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book for her second novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman was also an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, an Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel. Her A Dance For Three was also an ALA Best Book.
She has also written nonfiction books specifically for the Mormon
audience and is a popular LDS lecturer.
She is currently a weekly contributor to The Apron Stage http://theapronstage.com.
A Dance for Three (2000)
Quiero Escribir Una Historia de Amor (1999)
Eating Chocolates and Dancing in the Kitchen: sketches of marriage and family (Introduction) (1998)
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman (1995)
Thoughts of a Grasshopper: Essays and Oddities (1992)
My Name Is Sus5an Smith, the 5 Is Silent (1991)
The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier (1987)
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
. She lives in New York, New York with her writer/professor husband Tom. Together they have four sons.
The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
. While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English. They both took positions at BYU in 1985, the same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest
Dell Publishing
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, leading to its publication. The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
and the International Reading Association
International Reading Association
The International Reading Association is an international professional organization that was created in 1956 to improve reading instruction, facilitate dialogue about research on reading, and encourage the habit of reading....
.
Awards received by subsequent books include Her second novel, ALA
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....
Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council
Utah Arts Council
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums is an agency of the state government of Utah, responsible for the promotion of the arts and Utah museums. It is a division of the Utah Department of Community and Culture...
Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters
Association for Mormon Letters
The Association for Mormon Letters is a nonprofit founded in 1976 to promote quality writing "by, for, and about Mormons." The broadness of this definition of Mormon literature has led the AML to focus on a wide variety of work that has sometimes been neglected in the Mormon community...
Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book for her second novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman was also an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, an Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel. Her A Dance For Three was also an ALA Best Book.
She has also written nonfiction books specifically for the Mormon
Mormon
The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...
audience and is a popular LDS lecturer.
She is currently a weekly contributor to The Apron Stage http://theapronstage.com.
Books
Finding Daddy (2007)A Dance for Three (2000)
Quiero Escribir Una Historia de Amor (1999)
Eating Chocolates and Dancing in the Kitchen: sketches of marriage and family (Introduction) (1998)
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman (1995)
Thoughts of a Grasshopper: Essays and Oddities (1992)
My Name Is Sus5an Smith, the 5 Is Silent (1991)
The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier (1987)