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    Blue Balliett


    Born

    in New York City , The United States

    January 01, 1955


    Website

    http://www.blueballiettbooks.com/


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    Genre

    Children's Books


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    I was born in New York City and grew up playing in Central Park, getting my share of scraped knees, and riding many public buses and subways. By the time I was a teenager, I sometimes stopped at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Frick Museum after school, just to wander and look and think. The Met has five Vermeer paintings and the Frick three, so Vermeer and I have been friends for many years.
    After studying art history in college, I moved to Nantucket Island, in Massachusetts, in order to write. I surprised myself by writing two books of ghost stories, stories collected by interviewing people. My husband and I met and were married on Nantucket, lived there year-round for another 10 years, and had our two children there.
    When our kids stI was born in New York City and grew up playing in Central Park, getting my share of scraped knees, and riding many public buses and subways. By the time I was a teenager, I sometimes stopped at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Frick Museum after school, just to wander and look and think. The Met has five Vermeer paintings and the Frick three, s

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    Blue Balliett's first four mysteries—Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game, and The Danger Box—have been The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today and IndieBound bestsellers. Each combines real settings with an unlikely array of real-world ingredients. Hold Fast breaks new ground in ways that will startle. Or is it sparkle? In Balliett’s work, surprise at many levels is the name of the game.

    Balliett has won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel, Chicago Tribune Prize for Young Adult Fiction, Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, Book Sense Book of the Year Award, Great Lakes Book Award, Friends of American Writers Award, Agatha Award for Best YA Novel, Chicago Tribune’s Chicagoan of the Year for Literature, 2010, and a place in the official White House library as The Danger Box was handed to President Obama in January 2011 as a gift from the American Booksellers Association. She has appeared twice on NBC's Today Show.

    Book Worm Angels, a Chicago-based organization that provides a steady flow of thousands of books to classrooms in public schools across the city, gave Balliett the 2012 Kermit W. Myers Achievement Award, for "extraordinary

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