Beth Kephart is an American author of non-fiction, poetry and young adult fiction for adults and teens. Kephart has written and published over ten books and has received several grants and awards for her writing. She was a National Book Award Finalist[1] for her book "A Slant of the Sun: One Child’s Courage."
Kephart was first published in Iowa Woman magazine, and has said that she was writing poems from the time she was quite young, when she was influenced by music and the sound of words. In a HarperCollins interview, she stated: "I loved to sing. I loved to perform, with my brother and sister, to the soundtracks of The Music Man or My Fair Lady or Windjammer. I always had rhymes sliding around in my head. So that even as I got older, I would return to Robert Louis Stevenson and Hans Christian Andersen to see how they created what they created. I would read F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis, also, to learn about how words fit together. And then, of course, there was Black Beauty.".[2]
Kephart has been a participant in the Bread Loaf Writing Conference in Middlebury, Vermont with Jayne Anne Phillips, the 1996 Prague Writing Conference in the Czech Republic with William Gass and Jayne Anne Phillips, and the 1995 Spoleto Writing Conference in Spoleto, Italy with Rosellen Brown and Reginald Gibbons, 1994.
In 2023, Kephart wrote Good Books for Bad Children: The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom, a biographical children's book on editor Ursula Nordstrom's life and accomplishments.[3]
^Beth Kephart bio at National Book June 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^. Archived from the original on 2011-05-23. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
^Kephart, Beth (September 19, 2023). "Good Books for Bad Children: The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom". Anne Schwartz Books.
^Beth Kephart bio at Redroom January 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Beth Kephart news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2010 Learn how and when to remove this message Beth Kephart is an American author of non fiction poetry and young adult fiction for adults and teens Kephart has written and published over ten books and has received several grants and awards for her writing She was a National Book Award Finalist 1 for her book A Slant of the Sun One Child s Courage Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Honors and awards 4 Bibliography 5 Personal life 6 ReferencesEarly life and education editKephart was first published in Iowa Woman magazine and has said that she was writing poems from the time she was quite young when she was influenced by music and the sound of words In a HarperCollins interview she stated I loved to sing I loved to perform with my brother and sister to the soundtracks of The Music Man or My Fair Lady or Windjammer I always had rhymes sliding around in my head So that even as I got older I would return to Robert Louis Stevenson and Hans Christian Andersen to see how they created what they created I would read F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis also to learn about how words fit together And then of course there was Black Beauty 2 Kephart is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Career editKephart has been a participant in the Bread Loaf Writing Conference in Middlebury Vermont with Jayne Anne Phillips the 1996 Prague Writing Conference in the Czech Republic with William Gass and Jayne Anne Phillips and the 1995 Spoleto Writing Conference in Spoleto Italy with Rosellen Brown and Reginald Gibbons 1994 Undercover her first book for young adults was named a 2007 best book of the year by Amazon com Kirkus and School Library Journal Kephart has written for The New York Times Chicago Tribune Salon The Washington Post s Book World The Wall Street Journal Europe edition Philadelphia magazine The Philadelphia Inquirer Family Circle Parenting magazine Real Simple Reader s Digest New Jersey Life the Pennsylvania Gazette and Main Line Today In 2023 Kephart wrote Good Books for Bad Children The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom a biographical children s book on editor Ursula Nordstrom s life and accomplishments 3 Honors and awards editSpeakeasy Poetry Prize 2005 Pew Fellowships in the Arts 2005 BookSense Pick 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 2000 Leeway Grant for Creative Nonfiction 1998 Salon Best Book of the Year 1998 National Book Award Nonfiction Finalist 1998 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Top Fiction Grant 1997 Bread Loaf Merit Scholar for Fiction 1996 Bibliography editGood Books for Bad Children The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom Anne Schwartz Books 2023 Dangerous Neighbors Laura Geringer Books HarperTeen 2010 Anderson M T K L Going Beth Kephart and Chris Lynch No Such Thing as the Real World HarperTeen 2010 The Heart is Not a Size Laura Geringer Books HarperTeen 2009 House of Dance Laura Geringer Books HarperTeen 2008 Zenobia The Curious Book of Business Berrett Kohler 2008 Undercover Laura Geringer Books HarperTeen 2007 Flow The Life and Times of Philadelphia s Schuylkill River Temple University Press 2007 Ghosts in the Garden Endings Beginnings and the Unearthing of Self New World Library 2005 Big Shoes In Celebration of Dads and Fatherhood Al Roker and Friends Hyperion Books for Children 2005 Because I Said So HarperCollins 2005 Seeing Past Z Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast Forward World W W Norton 2004 Best American Sports Writing Houghton Mifflin 2003 New York Times Writers on Writing Volume II Times Books 2003 The Kindness of Strangers Lonely Planet 2003 Still Love in Strange Places A Memoir W W Norton 2002 Best American Sports Writing Houghton Mifflin 2001 Wanderlust Real Life Tales of Adventure and Romance 2000 Into the Tangle of Friendship A Memoir of the Things that Matter Houghton Mifflin 2000 Mothers Who Think Villard 1999 The Leap Years Beacon Press 1999 A Slant of Sun One Child s Courage W W Norton 1998Personal life editKephart lives in Philadelphia with her husband and son She is a writing partner in the marketing communications firm Fusion Communications and occasionally teaches and lectures at the University of Pennsylvania 4 References edit nbsp Children and Young Adult Literature portal Beth Kephart bio at National Book Archived June 20 2010 at the Wayback Machine Excerpt from Harper Collins Interview Archived from the original on 2011 05 23 Retrieved 2007 12 04 Kephart Beth September 19 2023 Good Books for Bad Children The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom Anne Schwartz Books Beth Kephart bio at Redroom Archived January 8 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index 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