Ann McGovern
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About
American writer who is best known for writing over 55 children's books and selling over 30 million copies. She gained popularity for her adaptation of Stone Soup, as well as Too Much Noise. She is also well known for writing biographies of figures such Harriet Tubman, Deborah Sampson, and Eugenie Clark.
Before Fame
She began writing poems at a young age. At age 14, she started working at a library. She attended the University of New Mexico.
Trivia
By her twenties she had written and published 10 books for Little Golden Books. She also worked for Scholastic for 13 years.
Family Life
Her father passed away when she was 5. She lived with her grandmother when her mother couldn't take care of her and her sister Janet. She married an English teacher during her first year of college and they had a son named Peter. They divorced shortly after. She later married Marty Scheiner and adopted his three children.
Associated With
She collaborated on her art for her books with artist Ezra Jack Keats.
