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Author Biography Project

*This project is designed for fifth grade students who have been studying the genre of biography.

Step 1:
    Open MSWord on your computer and minimize it.  You will need it later to answer some questions.

Step 2:
    Choose an author from the list below and find out all you can about that person.  You may follow any of the hyperlinks on that author's page, just remember to use your back button to get back to the original page.

Lloyd Alexander	Avi	Lynn Reid Banks	Matt Christopher	Beverly Cleary
Bruce Coville	Sharon Creech	Paula Danziger	Kate DiCamillo	John R. Erickson
Jean Fritz	Jean C. George	Dan Greenburg	Karen Hesse	Brian Jacques
Madeleine L'Engle	C. S. Lewis	Patricia MacLachlan	Phyllis R. Naylor	Mary Pope Osborne
Barbara Park	Katherine Paterson	Gary Paulsen	J. K. Rowling	Ron Roy
Louis Sachar	Jerry Spinelli	Gertrude Chandler Warner	Jane Yolen

Step 3:
    Answer the following questions in your Word document and print it.  Be sure and put your name on your paper.

    1.  What author did you choose?
    2.  What books has this author written?  Have you read any of them?
    3.  When was this person born? If he/she has passed away when did he/she die?
    4.  Where is this person from?
    5.  What interesting fact did you discover about this person?
    6.  Where does this author get ideas for his/her books?
    7.  Would you like to read more books by this author?