Name Jean Thesman | Role Novelist | |
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Awards Golden Kite Award for Fiction Books The Rain Catchers, The Other Ones, Calling the Swan, When the Road Ends, Rising Tide | ||
Jean Thesman (1929–2016) was a popular and award-winning novelist for young adults whose predominant theme was the heroine finding her place in the world by coming to understand her family. "I loved telling the story, because I really believed that families were made up of the people you wanted, not the people you were stuck with." —Emily Shepherd
Contents
- Biography
- Works
- The Whitney Cousins series
- The Birthday Girls series
- The Elliott Cousins series
- As TJ Bradstreet
- References
Biography
"My mother taught me to read before I started school, but I had to wait to be six before I could have a library card."
"In 25 years, I wrote 40 books. Most of them came out under my own name, but a few were published under the name T.J. Bradstreet."
She lived in Washington State, and was a member of The Authors Guild and the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Jean Thesman died January 21, 2016 at age 86 after a short illness.