Deborah Hopkinson and You
, by Hopkinson, Deborah- ISBN: 9781591582786 | 1591582784
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/30/2007
Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson grew up in Massachusetts and after college she moved to Hawaii where she worked as a college development administrator while nurturing her writing career. In this ninth book of the Author and YOU series, Hopkinson shares her curiosity and the manner in which that curiosity leads to investigation and research and then to her many fiction and nonfiction stories. The author discusses each of her books, providing the back story, the impetus for the book, and the research activities that brought each of the stories to young readers. She and her husband, Andrew Thomas, are the parents of two grown children, Rebekah and Dimitri. Deborah Hopkinson lives in Corvallis, Oregon, where she serves as director of foundation relations for the Oregon State University Foundation. Grades K-6.