Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky is an American children's writer and novelist, born in Indianapolis on June 24, 1944.
Lasky was educated at the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and later at Wheelock College. These two institutions formed the educational background from which she went on to pursue a career as a writer working in English.
As both a novelist and a children's writer, Lasky has produced work in English across her career. Her identity as a writer is defined by her engagement with fiction for younger readers, a focus that runs consistently through her occupational role as a children's author and novelist.
Lasky's work as a children's writer and novelist, conducted in English and originating from her formation as a United States citizen educated at two distinct academic institutions, continues to center on fiction written for children.
Quotes by Kathryn Lasky
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I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.
Anything worth doing has risks.” Hortense paused. “And believe me, this is worth doing.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. – James Baldwin.
I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan – no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.
Young’uns!” Mrs. P. interrupted. “No bad language, not at the table, please. And need I remind you, I am the table!
I am like glass to him, like water, Hannah thought to herself, alone now in the music room, heart racing. He sees through me, but how? Page: 97.
