Sara Zarr
Sara Zarr was born on October 3, 1970, in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up as a citizen of the United States. Her birthplace in the Midwest situates her within a broad American context, though her educational path would eventually take her westward across the country.
She attended Terra Nova High School before going on to study at San Francisco State University. Those two institutions mark the formal educational stops in her background as a writer. After completing her studies, she built a career in fiction, working specifically in the areas of young adult literature and children's writing.
As a novelist and children's writer, Zarr works across the categories that serve younger readers, from children through teenagers. Her identity as a young adult author places her within a corner of American fiction that focuses on that particular readership. She is a writer and a novelist, and those are the roles she has occupied throughout her career as a working author in the United States.
Zarr remains an active writer and United States citizen, continuing to work in young adult and children's fiction. Her career spans the two overlapping categories of novelist and children's writer, a range that reflects the different ages her work addresses. Her path from Cleveland to Terra Nova High School to San Francisco State University forms the geographic and educational outline of her background as an American author writing for young readers.
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My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.
That’s how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I’m still waiting.
You have to dig down and find some part of you that doesn’t care what people think, doesn’t care if it’s hard, doesn’t care if it hurts, doesn’t care if you have to momentarily experience humiliation, uncertainty, fear.
Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end?
A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don’t think it works quite like that. You can’t just erase everything that came before.
Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they’ve lived that out, you’ll know.
This was why Mom had told me to keep an eye on her. As tough as Dixie was, when it came to Dad she was a regular girl who wanted her father to love her. So.
I do have a little bit more confidence in – or at least familiarity with – my process. For example, when it feels like it’s going badly or that I’m lost, I know I’ll eventually find my way because I’ve been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.
