Name Pete Hautman | Role Author of novels | |
Education Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Saint Louis Park High School Awards National Book Award for Young People's Literature Nominations Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Books Godless, Mr Was, Rash, Sweetblood, Invisible Similar People Mary Logue, Nicholas Fisk, Penny Dann |
Author pete hautman talks about his new book the obsidian blade
Peter Murray Hautman (born September 29, 1952) is an American author of novels for young adults. One of them, Godless, won the 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The National Book Foundation summary is, "A teenage boy decides to invent a new religion with a new god - the town's water tower."
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- Author pete hautman talks about his new book the obsidian blade
- Pete hautman reads from how to steal a car
- Biography
- Awards and honors
- References
Under the name Peter Murray, Hautman has written more than 50 short books for the schools market beginning in 1992 with the titles Beavers, Black widows, Dogs, Rhinos, Snakes, and Spiders.
Pete hautman reads from how to steal a car
Biography
Hautman was born in Berkeley, California and moved to St. Louis Park, Minnesota at the age of five. He graduated from St. Louis Park High School and attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota during the next seven years without receiving a degree from either institution. After working at several jobs for which he calls himself "ill-suited", Hautman's first novel, Drawing Dead, was published in 1993.