Janet McDonald (1953-) Biography - Writings, Sidelights - Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Honors Awards, Work in Progress
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Born 1953, in Brooklyn, NY; Ethnicity: "African-American/Cree Indian." Education: Vassar College, B.A.; Columbia University School of Journalism, M.S.; New York University Law School, J.D.
Agent—Charlotte Sheedy, 65 Bleecker St., New York, NY 10012.
MENSA, Authors Guild, American Bar Association.
Best Book Award, Los Angeles Times, 1999, for Project Girl: An Inspiring Story of a Black Woman's Coming-of-Age; Best Young Adult Novel, American Library Association (ALA), 2001, for Spellbound; Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, ALA, 2003, for Chill Wind.
Several adult and young adult books of fiction.
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Janet McDonald told SATA: "The only life that is not disappointing is the one imagined. So I write to rejoice, revel, and rebel." Her first book, however, Project Girl: An Inspiring Story of a Black Woman's Coming-of-Age, dealt not with an imagined life but with her own hardscrabble youth. McDonald grew up in a public housing project in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. S…
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