Sharon Draper

Novelist

Birthday August 21, 1952

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace Cleveland, OH

Age 71 years old

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About

Author of the successful Jericho Trilogy and the popular Ziggy series. She is perhaps best known for her 2001 novel Darkness Before Dawn.

Before Fame

She graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

Trivia

She received a 1997 Coretta Scott King Award for her novel Forged by Fire.

Family Life

She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and later settled in Cincinnati. She married Larry Draper.

Associated With

She was a speaker at the National Book Festival, an event established by First Lady Laura W. Bush in 2001.