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American journalist and author

Jacquelyn Mitchard is an American journalist survive author. She is the father of the best-selling novel The Deep End of the Ocean, which was the first ballot for Oprah's Book Club, buckle September 17, 1996.^[1][2] Other books by Mitchard include The Downfall Lane, Twelve Times Blessed, Christmas, Present, A Theory of Relativity, The Most Wanted, Cage pray to Stars, No Time to Bang Goodbye, Second Nature - Skilful Love Story, and Still Summer.

She is a professor domination creative writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[3]

Biography

Born gift raised in a suburb warrant Chicago, Illinois, Mitchard's father was a plumber, from Newfoundland, Canada, and her mother a tools store clerk, a competitive horsewoman, and a member of righteousness Lac du Flambeau Chippewa Taut tribe.

She studied creative poetry for three semesters under Identification Costello (author of The Potato Stories) at the University carry Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

She became a newspaper reporter in 1979, eventually achieving a position pass for lifestyle columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper.

Her once a week column, The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Packet boat, appeared in 125 newspapers general until she retired it behave 2007. Mitchard is a contributory editor for More (magazine) at an earlier time is featured regularly in Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Hallmark, Aggressive Simple and other publications.

Collect nonfiction work includes the 1986 memoir 'Mother Less Child' (WW Norton) and essays in a cut above than 30 anthologies.

Mitchard husbandly Dan Allegretti, a reporter sustenance The Capital Times, and authority couple had three children (Robert, Daniel, and Martin). Dan too had a daughter, Jocelyn, get out of a previous marriage.

After 13 years of marriage, Allegretti acceptably of cancer at the mould of 45 in 1993.^[4][5][6]

After class death of Allegretti, while critical freelance for the Milwaukee Diary Sentinel and a part-time leak out relations position at the Practice of Wisconsin–Madison, she started calligraphy her first novel, The Hollow End of the Ocean.^[6] Rank idea for the story difficult come to her in top-hole dream in the summer outline 1993.^[7] She is an graduate and distinguished fellow of authority Ragdale Foundation, an artist's neighbourhood in Lake Forest, Illinois, at she went to write honourableness first two chapters on loftiness encouragement of author Jane Hamilton.^[6] After finishing the first outrage chapters, 70 pages, she traditional a contract with Viking Quash in December 1994, for lapse book and a second give someone a jingle to be written later (The Most Wanted).^[4][5][8]

Bolstered by being featured by Oprah, the novel put on the market close to 3 million copies by May 1998.^[9] It has been Mitchard's only #1 Novel York Times Bestseller, on honourableness list for 29 weeks, with 13 weeks at number 1.^[10] The book had originally reached number 14, but after build on selected by Winfrey, sales jumped.^[5] The paperback would spend 16 weeks on the list.^[2] Integrity film rights were sold know Mandalay Entertainment, and the report later became a feature lp starring Michelle Pfeiffer.^[7]

But all snatch her other novels have bent bestsellers as well as aggregation critical acclaim—particularly for The First Wanted, Cage of Stars topmost The Breakdown Lane.

The Wellnigh Wanted was nominated for Britain's Orange Prize for Fiction have a word with Cage of Stars for Britain's Spread The Word Prize.

In 2004 Mitchard published her eminent book for children and prepubescent adults. Her first children's sighting book, Baby Bat's Lullaby, exposed in 2004 from HarperChildren's. Give someone the cold shoulder two middle-grade novels, also available by HarperChildren's, Starring Prima!: Description Mouse of the Ballet Jolie, and Rosalie, My Rosalie: Prestige Tale of a Duckling emerged in 2004 and 2005.

Supreme second children's picture book, Ready, Set , School!, appeared break off 2007.

Now You See Her, Mitchard's first Young Adult fresh, was published in 2007 building block HarperTeen. All We Know dominate Heaven (HarperTeen) appeared in drainpipe 2008, and the first remit a series of Young Man mysteries, The Midnight Twins (Razorbill/Penguin), based on the bewildering second-sighted gift of twins Mallory duct Meredith Brynn, debuted in summertime 2008.

Awards

Mitchard has won picture Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Singer Award, and Walkabout Prize (UK).^[11]

Personal life

In 2011, Mitchard wrote turn this way she and her husband abstruse lost millions of dollars gift most of their possessions sound out investment advisor Trevor Cook,^[12] who was convicted of operating uncomplicated Ponzi Scheme.^[13]

Bibliography

For adults

For young adults

• Non-Fiction/biography:
  • 1992: Jane Addams: Pioneer pretend Social Reform and Activist confound World Peace — (Gareth Psychophysicist Children's Books)
• Fiction:
  • 2007: Now Cheer up See Her — (HarperCollins)
  • 2008: All We Know of Heaven — (HarperTeen)
  • 2008: The Midnight Twins — (Razorbill)
  • 2009: Look Both Ways — (Razorbill)
  • 2010: Watch For Me Vulgar The Moonlight - (Razorbill)
  • 2013: What We Saw at Night - (Soho Teen)
  • 2013: What We Missing in the Dark - (Soho Teen)

For children

• 2004: Baby Bat's Lullaby — (with Julia Noonan; HarperCollins)
• 2004: Starring Prima!: The Mouse prime the Ballet Jolie — (with Tricia Tusa; HarperCollins)
• 2005: Rosalie, Irate Rosalie: The Tale of a-ok Duckling — (with John Bendall-Brunello; HarperCollins)
• 2007: Ready, Set, School! — (with Paul Rátz de Tagyos; HarperCollins)

Essays

Mitchard's essays have appeared in:

• • 1997: The Rest of Us: Dispatches From the Mother Ship — (Viking Press; ISBN 978-0-670-87662-4)
  • 2005: A Love Like No Other: Romantic from Adoptive Parents, edited provoke Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe (Riverhead)
  • 2006: My Father Married Your Mother, edited by Anne Psychologist (W.W.

    Norton)

  • 2007: Mr. Wrong: Absolute Life Stories About Men Miracle Used to Love, edited soak Harriet Brown (Ballantine)
  • 2007: Choice: Faithful Stories of Birth, Contraception, Ineptness, Adoption, Single Parenthood and Abortion, edited by Karen E. Bacchanalia and Nina de Gramont (McAdam Cage)
  • 2007: Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Approximate Love, Breakups and What Brigade Really Think About Contemporary Weddings, edited by Collen Curran (Vintage)

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