Cynthia kadohata author biography for book
Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, ) is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in!
Lived in Chicago, Georgia, Arkansas, and California as a child.
Cynthia Kadohata
Japanese-American children's writer (born 1956)
Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956)[1] is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005.[2] She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2013 for The Thing About Luck.[3]
Biography
Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986.
She received a BA in journalism from the University of Southern California in 1979.[4] She also attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.
Kadohata started her writing career with short story submissions to magazines.
Her first publication, titled Charlie O., was published in 1986 in The New Yorker.[5] Later stories were published in The Pennsylvania Review, Grand Street, and Ploughshares.[6]
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