Edith Pattou is an American writer of

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fiction, including the novel ''

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'', an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults for 2004. She was born in

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, and she graduated from the Francis W. Parker School,

Scripps College Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded as a member of the Claremont Colleges in 1926, a year after the consortium's formation. Journalist and philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps pr ...

(B.A., English),

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(M.A., English) and

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(M.L.I.S.). She is married to Charles Emery, a professor of psychology at

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. They have one child, a daughter.

Bibliography

Songs of Eirren

# ''Hero's Song'' (

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, 1991) # ''Fire Arrow: the second song of Eirren'' (Harcourt Brace, 1998)

East/West

''1.

'' (Harcourt, 2003); UK title, ''North Child'' ''2.

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'' (2018), sequel to ''East''

Other works

* ''Mrs. Spitzer's Garden'' (2001), picture book illustrated by Tricia Tusa * ''Ghosting'' (2014)

Awards and honors

East

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2008)

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Best in Young Adult Fiction finalist (2012)

References

External links

Edith Pattou's website
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pattou, Edith 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American fantasy writers American young adult novelists American women novelists Scripps College alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Francis W. Parker School (Chicago) alumni Claremont Graduate University alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni American women science fiction and fantasy writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American women writers of young adult literature