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Sally Hobart Alexander is an American writer of children's literature. She is best known for her books about her experiences as a blind person. Born in 1943 in Owensboro, Kentucky, she was educated at Bucknell University. After her undergraduate degree, Alexander taught third-grade students in Southern California, when a rare disease caused her to lose her eyesight. She told ''Contemporary Authors'', "I was unhappy to leave that last year (my teaching ), when my visual difficulties began. I entered an excellent training program in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for newly blinded adults. For a year afterward, I taught at the Greater Pittsburgh Guild for the Blind. Then I entered graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh and obtained a master's degree in social work. For three years I was a child therapist at St. Francis Hospital." She embarked on a writing career in children's fiction with the publication of her first book, ''Mom Can't See Me'', in which Alexander depicts a loving family that has learned to cope with having a blind parent. Alexander teaches literature and writing in the Chatham University Master of Fine Arts Program in Children’s and Adolescent Writing. ==Books== * ''Mom Can't See Me'', fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1990). * ''Sarah's Surprise'', fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1990). * ''Mom's Best Friend'', fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1992). * ''Maggie's Whopper'', fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1992). * ''Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness '', nonfiction (New York: Macmillan, 1994). * ''On My Own: The Journey Continues'', nonfiction (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997). * ''Do You Remember the Color Blue? And Other Questions Kids Ask about Blindness'', nonfiction (New York: Viking, 2000). * ''She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer'', (co-author with Robert Alexander) nonfiction (New York: Clarion Books, 2008). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sally Hobart Alexander」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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