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Elizabeth Koehler Pentacoff

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Occupation
  
Author, instructor

Language
  
English


Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Author

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Name
  
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff

Spouse
  
Robert Pentacoff (m. 1981)

Books
  
The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women, Wish Magic

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Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff (born 1957) is an American author. She has written both fiction and nonfiction, as well as children's literature and adult books. Her memoir, The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women (2015) is about her experience with President Kennedy's sister and the author's aunt, Sister Paulus, Rosemary's caregiver and friend. The Missing Kennedy appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List for e-book non-fiction for the week of September 27, 2015. (https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2015-09-27/e-book-nonfiction/list.html) She also wrote the instructional book, The ABCs of Writing for Children, which was a Writer's Digest Book Club selection.

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Personal life

Koehler-Pentacoff was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in nearby Oconomowoc. She moved to California as a teenager to attend college. She chose a double major in children's theater and liberal studies and graduated from California State University Fresno in 1979.

She married Robert Pentacoff in 1981, taught elementary and middle school and directed children's theater before turning to freelance writing for magazines and newspapers. When her son, Christopher, was young, she wrote stories for him, which led her to writing books for children.

Career

When Koehler-Pentacoff began writing children's books, she also instructed adult teachers through California State University, East Bay. She taught weekend classes of creative drama and improvisation. Later she taught writing for children and writing comedy through UC Santa Cruz Extension located in Cupertino.

She has worked with the California Writers Club Mt. Diablo Branch's Young Writers Contest since 1995.

Anthologies

  • Author to Editor, Compiled by Linda Arms White, 1999
  • Writers in the Kitchen, Compiled by Tricia Gardella, Boyds Mills Press, 1998
  • Classroom Celebrations, Compiled by Teaching & Learning Company, 1996
  • References

    Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff Wikipedia


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