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Cynthia Carter DeFelice (born 1951) is an American children's writer. She has written 16 novels and 12 picture books for young readers. The intended audience for her novels is children of reading ages nine to twelve.
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- Fort by cynthia defelice 360p
- Cynthia DeFelice reads from her book Bringing Ezra Back
- Life and career
- References

Cynthia DeFelice reads from her book Bringing Ezra Back
Life and career

Carter was born in 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father was a psychiatrist, and her mother was an English teacher, who stopped working to raise Cynthia and her siblings. DeFelice credits her mother for sparking her interest in books. Among her three siblings is former US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. She began writing children's books in 1987. She lives in Geneva, New York.




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