Name Jane Conly Role Author | Awards John Newbery Medal | |
Parents Sarah McCaslin, Robert C. O'Brien Grandparents Agnes O'Brien Conly, Leslie Marsland Conly Education Johns Hopkins University, Woodrow Wilson High School, Smith College People also search for Robert C. O'Brien, Sarah McCaslin, John Newbery, Agnes O'Brien Conly, Leslie Marsland Conly Books Crazy Lady!, Racso and the Rats of NIMH, R‑T - Margaret - and the R, Trout Summer, While No One was Watching | ||
Jane Leslie Conly (born 1948) is an American author, the daughter of author Robert C. O'Brien. She started her literary work by finishing the manuscript for her father's Z for Zachariah in 1974 after his death.
Her first own book, Racso and the Rats of NIMH, was published in 1986, and is a sequel to her father's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1966 and from Smith College in 1971. Her Crazy Lady! won the Newbery Honor. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her family: Peter, her husband; Eliza, her daughter; and Will, her son.
Murder Afloat was named to the 2011-2012 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Master List.
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