Anne de Graaf
Anne de Graaf | |
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Born | San Francisco |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American/Dutch |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Period | Contemporary |
Genre | Children's literature |
Notable works | Out of the Red Shadow, Dance Upon the Sea |
Notable awards | 2000 Christy Award, 2007 East European Christian Children's Book Award |
Website | |
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Anne de Graaf is the author of more than eighty children's books and four adult novels and two teen novels. She has won the International Historical Fiction Christy Award in 2000 for Out of the Red Shadow, the final book of her Hidden Harvest series, and the East European Christian Children's Book Award in 2007 for Dance Upon the Sea.
Anne de Graaf was born in San Francisco, graduated from Stanford University, and has lived in Ireland and the Netherlands with her husband and their two children.[1] Besides her work as an author, she has also worked as a journalist for the Dutch National Press Club, and as an economics translator for the Dutch government.[1] She is a member of the British Society of Authors in London and the Rotary Club Westland-Polanen in The Netherlands.[1]
Awards
- Out of the Red Shadow, Christy Award in 2000
- Dance Upon the Sea, 2nd prize for East European Christian Children's Book Award in 2007
References
- 1 2 3 de Graaf, Anne (March 22, 2009). "Anne de Graaf". Retrieved 2009-04-30.
External links
- Official website
- Anne de Graaf at Library of Congress Authorities, with 12 catalogue records (one under 'De Graaf, Anne')