A Call for Questions: Karen Cushman
We are thrilled to announce that Newbery Award-winning author Karen Cushman is coming on the show!
Karen Cushman is the author of The Midwife’s Apprentice (winner of the 1996 Newbery Medal), Catherine, Called Birdy (a Newbery Honor book), The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (winner of the John and Patricia Beatty Award), and several other prize-winning novels published by Clarion Books. Her newest book is When Sally O’Malley Discovered the Sea.
Karen started writing at age 49, and likes “to write about gutsy girls figuring out who they are, and have no plans to stop writing until I am at least a hundred.”
What questions do you have for Karen?
Question: If you were to pick any of your characters to be your partner at a three legged race, which one would it be and why?
What did you do before you were an author?! How did you decide to write your first book? Did someone in your life encourage you to be an author?