Shannon Hale
Princess Academy is a notable work by Shannon Hale, an American novelist, children's writer, young adult author, fantasy author, and screenwriter. For this book, Hale received the Newbery Medal, an honor the record directly associates with her name.
Hale was born on January 26, 1974, in Salt Lake City. She attended West High School before continuing her education at the University of Montana and then the University of Utah. Her writing spans multiple genres, among them fantasy, juvenile fantasy, fairy tale, romance, science fiction, and children's fiction, and she has written in both English and Spanish. Two other works stand alongside Princess Academy as notable titles in her output: The Goose Girl and Book of a Thousand Days. Across these works and others, she has operated as a novelist, a children's writer, a young adult author, and a screenwriter, moving between forms and readerships throughout her career.
Beyond the Newbery Medal, Hale also received the Whitney Awards. These two honors are the named recognitions the record attaches to her. A citizen of the United States, she has worked across the borders of children's fiction, young adult literature, fantasy, and fairy tale, accumulating a body of work that includes Princess Academy, The Goose Girl, and Book of a Thousand Days as its most prominently identified titles. The Whitney Awards, alongside the Newbery Medal, remain the two concrete distinctions the available record assigns to her name.
Quotes by Shannon Hale
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Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don’t make sense.
You are not doing something foolish, are you?” In fact, she was, but that didn’t mean she had to stop glaring.
She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby’s neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead, and thought how people start with wrinkles and end with wrinkles, grow into their skin and then live to grow out of it again.
It must be a marvelous thing to feel so sure, to be able to meet someone’s eyes and not look away.
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.
She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together.
Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.
I don’t want a daughter named after a stone,” she had said, choosing instead to name her Miri after the flower that conquered rock and climbed to face the sun.