Kelly Barnhill
Kelly Barnhill received the Newbery Medal, the highest-confidence award listed among her recognitions, making it the natural anchor for her story as a writer working in children's literature and science fiction.
Born on December 7, 1973, in Minneapolis, Barnhill is a citizen of the United States who writes in English. She attended South High School and went on to study at St. Catherine University. Alongside her work as a writer, she also works as a teacher, and her writing spans both children's literature and science fiction.
In addition to the Newbery Medal, Barnhill has received the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. These three awards touch on different corners of speculative and children's fiction, reflecting the range of her work as a children's writer and science fiction writer.
Her name is cataloged by the Library of Congress under the authorized label "Barnhill, Kelly Regan," a detail that places her firmly within the record of American letters. That she works as both a writer and a teacher, writing in English out of Minneapolis, remains the most straightforward description the facts support.
Quotes by Kelly Barnhill
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The strongest trees on the mountain are the short, gnarled jacks. They let themselves bow and twist, and they live. They survive snowstorms and avalanches and wind. Those.
Flying on the backs of a flock of paper birds is less comfortable than you might imagine.
The more he learned, the more he knew what more there was to learn. There were deep pools of knowledge in dusty volumes quietly shelved in libraries, and Antain thirsted for all of them.
She was eleven, after all. She was both even and odd. She was ready to be many things at once – child, grown-up, poet, engineer, botanist, dragon. The list went on.
Excuse me,” Fyrian said. And he heaved himself over to a low shrub and vomited profusely. “Oh dear. I seem to have lit some things on fire.
Intelligence does not mean infallibility, nor does it mean immobility. Intelligence means the ability to learn.
But then you were enmagicked. I didn’t mean to, darling; it was an accident, but it couldn’t be undone. And I loved you. I loved you so much. And that couldn’t be undone either.
Sometimes it felt to him that the world was heavy, that the air, thick with sorrow, draped over his mind and body and vision, like a fog.
A word, after all, is a kind of magic. It locks the substance of a thing in sound or symbol, and affixes it to the ear, or paper, or stone. Words call the world into being. That’s power indeed.