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Gloria Whelan
Gloria Whelan (born November 23, 1923) is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist known primarily for children's and young-adult fiction.〔 She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000 for the novel ''Homeless Bird''.〔 She also won the 2013 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction with her short story entitled What World Is This? and the work became the title for the independent publisher's 2013 collection of short stories.
Whelan's books include many historical fiction novels, including a trilogy set on Mackinac Island and a quartet series set in communist Russia. Whelan is also the author of short stories which have appeared in ''The Ontario Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review'', and other literary quarterlies. Her collection of short stories, ''Playing with Shadows'', was published by the Illinois Press. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies and in ''Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards''. Whelan is, according to Liz Rosenberg in the ''Chicago Tribune'', "an accomplished, graceful, and intelligent writer."
==Early life==
Gloria was the daughter of William Rewoldt and Hildegarde Kilwinski Rewoldt, born 1923 in Detroit. She read many books as a girl, sometimes dictated stories that her baby sitter transcribed, and wrote poetry. She edited the high school newspaper.〔
She earned the bachelor's degree in 1945 and the Master of Social Work in 1948 at the University of Michigan. Also in 1948 she and neurologist Joseph L. Whelan were married. They had two children and lived in the Detroit area where she was employed in social work.〔 During that time she also wrote short stories and poetry.
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