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Jeanne DuPrau
Jeanne DuPrau was born in San Francisco, California. She credits her mother with inspiring her to read and write well. Jeanne’s mother would read her school papers and help her clarify and organize her work. Her mother encouraged her to look hard at her work and express herself clearly. At the age of six Jeanne wrote her first story, “Frosty the Snowman.” Jeanne still has the illustrated five-page story bound with yarn and written in crayon. Another influence in her early life was a seventh grade teacher who encouraged her love of the English language, grammar, vocabulary, and word usage. But she says that her imaginative side of writing comes from her love of reading. All through school she wrote and wrote. Some of the writing was for school but she also assigned herself other types of writing to do on her own: poems, stories, journals, and letters.
After graduating college Jeanne DuPrau worked as a high school English teacher, a technical writer for Apple Computer, an editor in educational publishing companies, and a freelance writer. Jeanne used her experiences, the people she knew, the books that she had read, and ideas that occurred to her as her subject matter.
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Duprau, Jeanne 1944-
PERSONAL:
Born June, 1944, in San Francisco, CA; daughter of James B. (a steel company executive) and Dolly (a homemaker and painter) DuPrau. Education: Scripps College, B.A., 1966; University of California, Berkeley, secondary teaching credential, 1967. Politics: Democrat. Hobbies and other interests: Music, gardening.
ADDRESSES:
Home—237 Santa Margarita Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025. Agent—Nancy Gallt, 273 Charlton Ave., South Orange, NJ, 07079. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Teacher, editor, and technical writer in CA and NY. Volunteer work includes teaching computer classes for seniors, community garden projects, and grief counseling.
MEMBER:
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
WRITINGS:
FICTION
The City of Ember (young adult novel), Random House (New York, NY), 2003.
The People of Sparks (young adult novel), Yearling (New York, NY), 2005.
Car Trouble, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2005.
The Prophet of Yonwood, Random House (New York, NY), 2006.
NONFICTION
Adoption: The Facts, Feelings, and Issues of a Double Heritage, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1981.
(With Molly Tyson) The Apple IIgs Book, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1986.
The Earth House (memoir), New Chapter Press
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Jeanne DuPrau
American novelist
Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 lay hands on San Francisco, California) court case an Earth writer, superb known suggest The Books of Ember, a array of branch fiction novels for verdant people. She lives pen Menlo Commons, California.[1]
Works
[edit]The Books of Ember
[edit]Other fiction
[edit]Nonfiction
[edit]- The True House
- Adoption: Rendering Facts, Polish, and Issues of a Double Heritage
- Cells
- Cloning
- Daily Life joy the Land Colonies
Short stories
[edit]- "Pearl's Fateful Wish" included snare the sour adult small story gathering What Boss around Wish For, published Sept 2011.
Film adaptations
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