Karen Hesse was born on August 29, 1952.
Karen S. Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults.She won the Newbery medal for Out of the Dust.
Karen was born in Baltimore.She completed her studies after studying math at Towson State College.She attended College Park and the University of Maryland.She earned a degree.During this time, she began writing poetry.
After graduating, she moved with her husband to Vermont and started writing children's books.
Her first novel was rejected because it was about meeting Bigfoot, but her next proposal was published by Henry Holt in 1991.[3]
The story of a girl living through the Depression is called Out of the Dust.The central character's mother died giving birth to her stillborn brother.After the mother's death, Billie Jo and her father try to keep going.
Witness was a verse novel that tackled a more disturbing subject.The Ku Klux Klan tried to take over a small Vermont town in the 1920s.The book was written from the perspectives of several people, including members of the Klan, a six-year-old Jewish girl, and an African American girl.The poetic/prose style she pioneered in Out of the Dust was continued in Witness.
The true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain James Cook's ship in 1768.The UK version of the book is called Young Nick's Head.The diary was written by Nicholas Young, the cabin boy on the Endeavour.
The true story of the family who created the teddy bear in Brooklyn in 1903 is the basis of Brooklyn Bridge.