ClareDunkle.com
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Clare B. Dunkle's Homepage
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I was born Clare Buckalew in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in Denton, Texas, a city north of Dallas. I earned my B.A. in Russian with a minor in Latin from Trinity University in San Antonio. I graduated from Indiana University with a master’s degree in library science and came back to San Antonio to work. I was the monographs cataloger at Trinity University’s Coates Library from 1990 to 1999, when I left to homeschool my two teenage daughters. My family moved to Germany in 2000, and we live now in Obermohr, not far from the old Roman city of Trier. In April of 2001, my daughters left home to attend a German boarding school for girls, and I began to write books for them.
At this relatively early point in my career, my books have sold over 35,000 hardcover copies and attracted the attention of critics as well as teens. The Hollow Kingdom won the Mythopoeic Award for Best Children’s Fantasy Book, was named a Bank Street College of Education Best Fantasy Book, and earned a Publishers Weekly starred review and a Publisher’s Weekly “Flying Start” among other honors. Close Kin and By These Ten Bones both landed on the New York Public Library “Books for the Teen Age” lists, and By These Ten Bones is currently on the shortlist for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award. My latest book, In the Coils of the Snake, has earned a starred review from Booklist and a place on the VOYA “Best Books for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror” list. The three titles of The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy have all been Junior Library Guild selections and have been scheduled for foreign language editions. They will be out in paperback in September 2007.
When I wrote The Hollow Kingdom, I had no agent and no fiction-publishing experience. I am deeply grateful that the manuscript found a home on its very first trip out into the world and that Reka Simonsen, my editor at Holt, lavished such care on it. Reka and I worked happily together on the Hollow Kingdom Trilogy and By These Ten Bones. I loved my time at Holt. Leaving Reka was one of the hardest things I have done.
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