Sharon Creech

About Sharon Creech

Author of children's books who received the Newbery Medal in the United States and the Carnegie Medal in the United Kingdom. Walk Two Moons, Ruby Holler, and Love That Dog are among her best-known works.

Sharon Creech is an American children's novelist. She was the first American to win the British Children's Books Carnegie Medal and the first to win both America's Newbery Medal and Britain's Carnegie Medal.

Notable works	Walk Two Moons, Ruby Holler
Born	Jul 29, 1945, South Euclid, Ohio, US
Nationality	American
Notable awards	Newbery Medal, 1995, Carnegie Medal, 2002
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Children's novels, low fantasy, magic realism, poetry

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Trivia

She wrote several of her children's works, including Heartbeat and Love That Dog, in verse.

Sharon Creech before fame

She taught literature and writing in both England and Switzerland after graduating from college. Absolutely Normal Chaos, her debut children's book, was released in the United Kingdom in 1990. In the United States, Walk Two Moons was published four years later.

Achievement of Sharon Creech

Heartbeat and Love That Dog are two of her children's books that she authored in verse.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Sharon Creech family life

Dennis, Douglas, Thomas, and Sandy, her four siblings, grew up in the Cleveland suburb of South Euclid. She married Lyle Rigg, a New Jersey educator, and they had two children, Karin and Rob.

Associations of Sharon Creech

Karen Hesse is another Newbery Medal-winning author who is a woman.

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