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Marion Dane Bauer (born November 20, 1938) is an American children's author.

Bauer was born on November 20, 1938, and brought up in Oglesby, a small prairie town in Northern Illinois. She was educated at LaSalle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College, the University of Missouri and the University of Oklahoma, where she graduated in 1962. She married Ronald Bauer, raising their two children as well as being a foster parent for other children. That marriage ended in divorce after 28 years. She has taught English at a Wisconsin high school and classes in creative writing in Minnesota. Marion was one of the founders of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives and works in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Marion wanted to be a writer from an early age. As a child, she says, "I constantly made [stories] up in my head, for my dolls, for my friends. I acted them out using my cigar box filled with marbles as characters." An aunt gave her vital encouragement during her teenage years, by taking her work seriously and urging her to continue writing. Bauer recalls that "the example of someone who loved writing and found doing it both good and important, probably influenced me more deeply than any other."

Recognition

Rain of Fire (1983) won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award in 1984. On My Honor (1986) was a Newbery Honor Book in 1987 and won the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 1989. Am I Blue, an anthology of children's fiction about gay and lesbian issues, won a Lambda Literary Award in 1994, and the Stonewall Book Award for literature in 1995. Bauer received the Kerlan Award in 1996. The Longest Night (2009) won a 2010 Golden Kite Award for picture-book text.

Books

Shelter from the Wind, 1976

Foster Child, 1977

Tangled Butterfly, 1980

Rain of Fire, 1983

Like Mother, Like Daughter, 1985

On My Honor (Newbery Medal Winner), 1986

Touch the Moon, 1987

A Dream of Queens and Castles, 1990

Face to Face, 1991

What's Your Story?: a young person's guide to writing fiction, 1992

Ghost Eye, 1992

A Taste of Smoke, 1993

(ed.) Am I Blue?: coming out from the silence, 1994

A Question of Trust, 1994

A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction, 1995

When I Go Camping with Grandma, 1995

Our Stories, A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors, 1996

If You Were Born a Kitten, 1997

Alison's Wings, 1997

Alison's Puppy, 1997

Alison's Fierce and Ugly Halloween, 1997

Turtle Dreams, 1997

Christmas in the Forest, 1998

Bear's Hiccups, 1998

An Early Winter, 1999

Sleep, Little One, Sleep, 1999

The Double Digit Club, 2000

Grandmother's Song, 2000

Jason's Bears, 2000

My Mother is Mine, 2001

If you Had a Nose Like an Elephant's Trunk, 2001

Runt, 2002

The Kissing Monster, 2002

Uh-Oh!, 2002

Frog's Best Friend, 2002

Love Song for a Baby, 2002

Land of the Buffalo Bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota, 2003. In the Dear America series.

Snow, 2003

Wind, 2003

Why Do Kittens Purr?, 2003

Toes, Ears & Nose! 2003

The Double-Digit Club, 2004

The Very Best Daddy of All, 2004

A Mama for Owen, 2004

Clouds, 2004

Rain, 2004

A Bear Named Trouble, 2005

The Blue Ghost, 2005

Easter is Coming, 2005

A Recipe for Valentine's Day, 2005

Waiting for Christmas, 2005

If Frogs Made Weather, 2005

Niagara Falls, 2006

The Rocky Mountains, 2006

The Grand Canyon, 2006

Christmas Lights, 2006

I'm Not Afraid of Halloween!, 2006

The Statue of Liberty, 2007

Mount Rushmore, 2007

The Mighty Mississippi, 2007

The Secret of the Painted House, 2007

Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins, 2007

Baby Bear Discovers the World, 2007

A Mama for Owen, 2007

The Red Ghost, 2008

The Green Ghost, 2008

Some Babies Are Wild, 2008

Yellowstone, 2008

Volcano!, 2008

Flood!, 2008

Earthquake!, 2009

The Very Little Princess, 2009

The Christmas Baby, 2009

Martin Luther King, Jr. - My First Biography, 2009

The Longest Night, 2009

One Brown Bunny, 2009

How Do I Love You?, 2009

Cutest Critter, 2010

Christopher Columbus - My First Biography, 2010

Harriet Tubman - My First Biography, 2010

Thank You for Me!, 2010

The Longest Night, 2011

In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb, 2011

Benjamin Franklin - My First Biography, 2011

The Golden Ghost, 2011

The Very Little Princess - Rose's Story, 2011

The Very Little Princess - Zoey's Story, 2011

Dinosaur Thunder, 2012

Halloween Forest, 2012

Little Dog, Lost, 2012

Celebrating Arizona, 2013

Celebrating Texas, 2013

Celebrating New York, 2013

Celebrating Florida, 2013

Celebrating California, 2013

Celebrating Virginia and Washington, D.C., 2013

Celebrating North Carolina, 2014

Celebrating Washington State, 2014

Celebrating Massachusetts, 2014

Celebrating Illinois, 2014

Crinkle, Crackle, Crack, It's Spring, 2015

Little Cat's Luck, 2016

Sun, 2016

Rainbow, 2016

Winter Dance, 2017

Jump Little Wood Ducks, 2017

The Stuff of Stars, 2018

The Appalachian Trail, 2020

Sunshine, 2021

Moon - Our Universe Series, 2021

Mars - Our Universe Series, 2021

Earth - Our Universe Series, 2021

The Animals Speak, 2021

The Night Sky - Our Universe Series, 2023

We, the Curious Ones, 2023

The Solar System - Our Universe Series, 2024

Additional Sources

Day, Frances Ann (2000). Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children And Young Adults. Greenwood Press. pp. 178–180. ISBN 0-313-31162-5.