Laura Amy Schlitz

Children's Author

Birthday May 28, 1955

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Maryland

Age 69 years old

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About

Newbery Medal-winning children's author. Her best-known works include Splendors and Glooms, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, and A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama.

Before Fame

She worked as both a storyteller and librarian at a private school located in Brooklandville, Maryland.

Trivia

She wrote A Gypsy at Almack's, a romance novel, under the pen name of Chloe Cheshire.

Family Life

She grew up in Maryland and attended the state's Goucher College, graduating in 1977.

Associated With

Her contemporary, fellow American children's author Dan Gutman, became famous for his Baseball Card Adventures series.