She then taught French and German at Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly, Virginia, where she also coached their cross-country teams. She graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School in 1978 and attended Gettysburg College, where she received her bachelor's degree in French and minored in German and secondary education. I suppose as I practiced typing them, I must have absorbed some of the craft behind the writing of these little ‘biographies'.” And what are obituaries, really, but one’s life summed up in a paragraph or two? Good ones leave an impression of the person as an individual. She was fascinated by the manual typewriter her father used and would “try and copy whatever material happened to be lying around: drafts of obituaries. Bryant grew up next to a funeral home, where her father and grandfather were undertakers. Her books The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus and A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams have been distinguished with Caldecott Honors for Melissa Sweet's artwork.īryant (née Jennifer Fisher) was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and grew up in Flemington, New Jersey. Sibert International Book Medal for The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award, and the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, and the Schneider Family Book Award for Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille. Jen Bryant (born 1960) is an American poet, novelist, and children's author.īryant has won several awards for her work, including the Robert F.
Non-fiction, picture books, biographies, novels, poetry Children's and young adult author and poet
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