Sharon Creech

Sharon Creech is one of the most prominent authors of America who likes to write her novels based on the fantasy, children’s novels, poetry, and magic realism genres. She has achieved the feat of becoming the first American author to win the Carnegie Medal for the British children’s novels. Creech is also the first person to have won both the British Carnegie and the Newbery Medal of America. Author Creech was born on July 29, 1945, in South Euclid, Ohio, Cleveland, The United States. She spent her growing years with her parents named Arvel and Ann, and her siblings, Sandy, Doug, Tom, and Dennis. Creech used to visit the house of her cousins located in Quincy, Lewis County, Kentucky, very often. She had grown fond of the place so much that she went on to use it as a setting for a number of her books. Author described the place as a fictional town called Bybanks, located in Kentucky. When author Creech was studying in her college in The United States, she became very much intrigued by the art of storytelling due to the writing and literature courses that she took up.