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Karen Hesse

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Karen Hesse


Born
in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States
August 29, 1952

Genre
Children's Books, Literature & Fiction


Karen Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. Her novel Out of the Dust was the winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. In 2002, Hesse was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

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Motherhood

As a mother, I’m curious about your experience as a mother and a writer. Were you a mother, for example, when you wrote Out of the Dust? And are there ways in which you can identify how your experience as a mother has informed and shaped your writing?

I was, indeed, a mother when I wrote OUT OF THE DUST. My entire body of work for children has been written since the birth of my first child.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 121,703 ratings · 10,608 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors
Out of the Dust
3.77 avg rating — 77,630 ratings — published 1997 — 72 editions
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Letters from Rifka
3.92 avg rating — 10,985 ratings — published 1992 — 42 editions
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The Music of Dolphins
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Come On, Rain!
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“the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
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“And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
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“The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money,
or drought,
or dust.
Hard times are about losing spirit,
and hope,
and what happens when dreams dry up.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
tags: difficulties-of-life, dreams, hard-times, hope, spirit
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