All of Sharon's Titles A Fine, Fine School Absolute Normal Chaos Bloomability The Castle Corona Chasing Redbird Fishing in the Air Granny Torrelli     Makes Soup Hate That Cat Heartbeat Love that Dog Pleasing the Ghost Replay Ruby Holler Walk Two Moons The Wanderer Who's That Baby BUY THE BOOKS

I was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, and grew up there with my noisy and rowdy family: my parents (Ann and Arvel), my sister (Sandy), and my three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom). For a fictional view of what it was like growing up in my family, see Absolutely Normal Chaos. Read more...

I've enjoyed meeting readers all over the U. S. and in Europe. Here's my online photo album, with pictures taken on the road, and photos from the different places I've lived. There are also pictures from my 'night of a lifetime' in June 1995, when Walk Two Moons was honored by the American Library Association with the Newbery Medal! Are you going to write a sequel to Walk Two Moons? I don't think so, but many of my books are already connected, if not exactly sequels. For example, Absolutely Normal Chaos is Mary Lou Finney's 'secret' summer journal, and both she and her journal reappear in Walk Two Moons. Walk Two Moons is the story of Salamanca Tree Hiddle and her home in Bybanks, and Chasing Redbird also takes place in Bybanks and is the story of Salamanca's friend there, Zinny Taylor. The main character in Bloomability, Domenica, is from Bybanks and in this story there are references to Zinny from Chasing Redbird. Where do you get your ideas? This is a hard question to answer because a book contains not one, but hundreds, maybe thousands, of little ideas. Often it seems as if the main character and the place just arrive in my head one day, but later I can see that perhaps they arrived there because I'd been thinking about my family or someone I'd seen at a bus stop. Many ideas in Walk Two Moons came from a single fortune cookie message: "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins." From that came the ideas of a journey (walking along) and of Native American heritage and of people not being what they might at first seem to be. Read more... I welcome comments about my books or this website. If you would like to send a letter please write to: Sharon Creech c/o HarperCollins Children's Books Author Mail 1350 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10019 Please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like a reply. Thank you for your interest. Do you have a question about author appearances or school visits?