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Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.〔 ==Biography== Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents (Ann and Arvel), one sister (Sandy), and three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Sharon Creech Biography )〕 She often used to visit her cousins in Quincy, Lewis County, Kentucky, which has found its way into many of her books as fictional Bybanks, Kentucky. Bybanks appears in ''Walk Two Moons'', ''Chasing Redbird'' and ''Bloomability'' and there is an allusion to Bybanks in ''The Wanderer''.〔 At college in the U.S. she became intrigued by story-telling after taking literature and writing courses, and she later became a teacher of secondary school English and Writing in England and Switzerland.〔 Her first children's novel ''Absolutely Normal Chaos'' was published only in the U.K., by Macmillan Children's Books in 1990. Called "comedy about contemporary teen life" by ''Kirkus Reviews'', it featured a 13-year-old girl's "complete and unabridged journal for English class".〔 Her first book published in the U.S. was ''Walk Two Moons'' (1994), which won the American Newbery Medal in 1995. Later that year, ''Absolutely Normal Chaos'' was first published in the U.S. by HarperCollins —set in her hometown Euclid, Ohio.〔 Creech returned to the U.S. in 1998 after 18 years abroad.〔 She is married to Lyle Rigg, a headmaster in New Jersey, and has two grown children, Rob and Karin.〔 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「Sharon Creech」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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