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Jennifer L. Holm
Jennifer L. Holm is an American children's writer, and recipient of three Newbery Honors and the Eisner Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Will Eisner Award past Winners )〕
== Biography ==
Holm, born in 1968,〔 in California〔Random House Speakers Bureau, "(Jennifer L. Holm )". Accessed December 8, 2013.〕 was raised in Audubon, Pennsylvania with her four brothers. After graduating from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, she worked in television and later began to write. ''Our Only May Amelia,'' the story of a 12-year-old girl living in the late 19th century, inspired by a diary written by her great aunt, became her first published novel and was a 2000 Newbery Honor Book. Holm also has written a series featuring Jane Peck, a young woman living in the 1850s (''Boston Jane: An Adventure'', ''Boston Jane: Wilderness Days'' and ''Boston Jane: The Claim''); ''The Creek,'' a horror thriller; ''Babymouse'', a series of graphic novels for children illustrated by her brother Matthew; and ''The Stink Files'', a series co-written with her husband Jonathan Hamel featuring James Edward Bristlefur, a cat raised by a British secret agent who is adopted by an American family and renamed Mr. Stink after his owner is murdered. ''Penny from Heaven,'' a story set in the 1950s featuring an 11-year-old Italian-American girl, was a 2007 Newbery Honor recipient. ''Turtle in Paradise,'' which is set in the Great Depression in Key West, Florida, was a 2011 Newbery Honor recipient. ''Babymouse for President'' won the 2013 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7).
''Our Only May Amelia'' has been adapted for the stage by John Olive. The River Theater in Astoria, Oregon performed it for its 2006 summer run, in conjunction with FinnFest USA '06. The events of the play (and book) were set just north of Astoria in Naselle, Washington.
Holm currently lives in California with her husband and two children.〔
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