Anne Ursu is an American novelist and children's writer based in

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Biography

She attended Brown University. Ursu's first novel, ''Spilling Clarence'', is about a drug that wafts through the air of a small Minnesota town. The drug had a strong effect on the town's residents, who then suffered from visceral memories and stupor. Her second novel, ''The Disapparation of James'', is about a boy disappearing during a stage magic trick. ''Breadcrumbs,'' a middle-grade novel published by Walden Pond Press, was released September 27, 2011. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "

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," ''Breadcrumbs'' is a story of the struggle to hold on, and of the things we leave behind. Ursu has also written a trilogy for middle-grade readers, the Cronus Chronicles, (published by Atheneum), involving two cousins' adventures in the realms of

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. The individual titles are ''The Shadow Thieves,'' ''The Siren Song,'' and ''The Immortal Fire.'' She published another middle-grade fantasy in 2013, ''The Real Boy,'' which was longlisted for the

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. She teaches at

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's low residency MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Ursu is also the former author of a popular sports blog about the Minnesota Twins called bat-girl.com. In 2007, she posted on the site that she no longer had time to maintain it, saying: "The time has come to end this wonderful adventure. I had hoped to be able to keep it up with Dash, but I simply do not have time to do this blog well, and there is no point in doing it any other way."

Awards and honors

* 2013, McKnight Fellowship in Children's Literature * 2013, ''The Real Boy'', longlisted for the National Book Award

Bibliography

* ''Spilling Clarence'', Hyperion, 2003—Winner of the 2003 New Voice (first-time author) award from the

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. *''The Disapparation of James'', Hyperion, 2004. As recommended by

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in ''More Book Lust''. * ''Breadcrumbs'', HarperCollins, 2011. * ''The Real Boy'', Walden Pond Press, 2013 * ''The Lost Girl'', Walden Pond Press, 2019 * ''The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy,'' Walden Pond Press, 2021 * ''Not Quite a Ghost,'' Walden Pond Press, 2024

The Cronus Chronicles

* ''The Shadow Thieves'', Atheneum, 2006. * ''The Siren Song'', Atheneum, 2007. * ''The Immortal Fire'', Atheneum, 2009.

Articles and Short Stories

* "The President's New Clothes," ''Politically Inspired'', MacAdam/Cage, 2003 * Articles in the Washington Post Book World, the ''StarTribune,'' on Salon.com, and ESPN.com

References

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