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Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944) is an American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of the Beyond, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. Her awards include Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature, National Jewish Book Award, and Newbery Honor.

Biography

Kathryn Lasky grew up in Indianapolis. She is Jewish and of Russian descent. She is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Deer Isle, Maine. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in early childhood education from Wheelock College.

She was the 2011 winner of the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.

She is the author of over one hundred books. Her most notable book series is Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which has more than 8 millions copies printed. Her books have been translated into 19 languages around the world.

Her adult nonfiction work includes the 2011 book, Silk and Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider, a biography of the arachnologist Greta Binford, and the 2017 bestseller Night Witches, the story of Soviet women pilots of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment in WWII.

Works

Camp Princess

Born To Rule

Unicorns? Get Real!

The Royal Diaries

Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor (England 1544)

Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles (Austria-France 1769)

Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country (France 1553)

Jahanara: Princess of Princesses (India, 1627)

Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven (Japan 1858)

Dear America

A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620

Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903

Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932

A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C., 1917

Blazing West: The Journal of Augustus Pelletier, Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804

My America

Hope In My Heart: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (also known as Hope In My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary)

Home at Last: Sofia's Immigrant Diary

An American Spring: Sofia's Immigrant Diary

Daughters of the Sea

Hannah

May

Lucy

The Crossing

Horses of the Dawn

The Escape (2014)

Star Rise (2014)

Wild Blood (2016)

Starbuck Family Adventures

Double Trouble Squared

Shadows in the Water

A Voice in the Wind

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

The Capture (also published as a movie tie-in edition in the UK as Legend of the Guardians)

The Journey

The Rescue

The Siege

The Shattering

The Burning

The Hatchling

The Outcast

The First Collier

The Coming of Hoole

To Be a King

The Golden Tree

The River of Wind

Exile

The War of the Ember

The Rise of a Legend (2013) (this is a prequel to the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series about Ezylryb)

Two guide books were released to give readers more insight into the world of Hoole. They are narrated by the owl Otulissa.

A Guide Book to the Great Tree (2007)

Lost Tales of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Wolves Of The Beyond

Lone Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Watch Wolf

Frost Wolf

Spirit Wolf

Star Wolf

The Deadlies

Felix Takes the Stage

Spiders on the Case

Bears of the Ice

Quest of the Cubs

The Den of Forever Frost

The Keepers of the Keys

Portraits

Dancing Through Fire (2005)

Standalone titles

Night Witches (2017)

The Last Girls of Pompeii (2007)

Blood Secret (2004)

Broken Song (2005) (companion to The Night Journey)

Star Split (1999) (Published in German as 3038: Staat der Klone)

Alice Rose and Sam (1998)

True North (1996)

Beyond the Burning Time (1994)

Memoirs of a Bookbat (1994)

The Bone Wars (1988)

Pageant (1986)

Beyond the Divide (1983)

The Night Journey (1981) (1982 winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature)

Prank (1984)

Robin Hood: The Boy Who Became a Legend (1999)

Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian (2000)

Ashes (2010)

Chasing Orion (2007)

Home Free (1985)

Children and YA non-fiction

John Muir: America's First Environmentalist

Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles

Silk and Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider (2011) Candlewick. ISBN 978-0-7636-4222-8

Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World

Sugaring Time (1983 Newbery Honor)

Days of the Dead

Searching for Laura Ingalls

Monarchs

Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth

Dinosaur Dig

Traces of Life: The Origins of Humankind

A Baby map

"Tangled in Time: The Portal" (2019)

"Tangled in Time: The Burning Queen" (2019)

Picture books

Lunch Bunnies

Show and Tell Bunnies

Science Fair Bunnies

Tumble Bunnies

Lucille's Snowsuit

Lucille Camps In

Starring Lucille

Pirate Bob

Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine

Before I was Your Mother

The Man Who Made Time Travel

A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet

Love That Baby

Mommy's Hands

Porkenstein

Born in the Breezes: The Voyages Of Joshua Slocum

Vision of Beauty

First Painter

The Emperor's Old Clothes

Sophie and Rose. Illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin. Candlewick Press, 1998.

Marven of the Great North Woods (1997 winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's Picture Books illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. January 2013 selection by the PJ Library.)

A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain

Hercules: The Man, The Myth, The Hero

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!

The Gates of the Wind

Pond Year

Cloud Eyes

I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street

Sea Swan

My Island Grandma

Adult

Other than Night Gardening all Lasky's works for adult readers are under the name Kathryn Lasky Knight.

Atlantic Circle (1985) (Memoir about Lasky and her husband, Chris Knight, covering their childhood years on to a trip shortly their getting married sailing a thirty-foot ketch from Maine to Europe and back.)

The Widow of Oz (1989)

Night Gardening (1999) (written under the pseudonym of E.L. Swann)

Calista Jacobs mystery

This series for adult readers was also written under the name Kathryn Lasky Knight.

Trace Elements (1986)

Mortal Words (1990)

Mumbo Jumbo (1991)

Dark Swan (1994)