Anne Shelby

Anne Gabbard was born on September 25, 1948, in Berea, Kentucky. Her parents were teachers. She attended Kentucky Southern in 1966 for one year before the college closed. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Andrews College in 1970 and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in 1981."Anne Shelby (1948-)." Something About the Author, edited by Alan Hedblad, vol. 121, Gale, 2001, pp. 152-164. Gale Literature: Something About the Author. Accessed 9 May 2023."Anne Shelby." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2010. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 9 May 2023.

She married Jimmy Godwin on December 26, 1968, and they divorced in 1972. She married Edmund Shelby, a teacher, on August 25, 1972. She has one child. She lives in Oneida, Kentucky.

She has worked for the Appalachian Writers Workshop, the School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Lexington, KY, Kentucky's Governor's School for the Arts,{{Cite web |date=2019-08-27 |title=Living History at Your Library presents Aunt Molly Jackson theatric performance Thursday |url=https://www.army.mil/article/226288/living_history_at_your_library_presents_aunt_molly_jackson_theatric_performance_thursday |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=www.army.mil |language=en}} and for the gifted program at the University of Kentucky.

Three of Shelby's books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly or Kirkus Reviews: Homeplace (Orchard Books, 1995), The Someday House (Orchard Books, 1996), and The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009).{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-shelby/the-man-who-lived-in-a-hollow-tree/ |title=THE MAN WHO LIVED IN A HOLLOW TREE {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}{{Cite web |date= |title=Homeplace by Anne Shelby |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780531068823 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-shelby/the-someday-house/ |title=THE SOMEDAY HOUSE {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}} Homeplace was a Junior Library Guild selection.

• Waiting for Daylight: For Soprano and Orchestra, with Steve Rouse, Primal Press Publishing, 1997.
• Appalachian Studies, Wind Publications, 2005.

• We Keep a Store, illustrated by John Ward, Orchard Books, 1990.{{Cite web |title=Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/anne-shelby-2/we-keep-a-store/ |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}{{Cite web |date= |title=We Keep a Store by Anne Shelby |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780531058565 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}
• Potluck, illustrated by Irene Trivas, Orchard Books, 1991.{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-shelby/potluck/ |title=POTLUCK {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}
• What to Do about Pollution, illustrated by Irene Trivas, Orchard Books, 1993.{{Cite web |date= |title=What to Do about Pollution-- by Anne Shelby |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780531054710 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}
• Homeplace, illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin, Orchard Books, 1995.{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-shelby/homeplace/ |title=HOMEPLACE {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=1995-06-11 |title=CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Bookshelf |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/11/books/children-s-books-bookshelf-515295.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-05-10 |issn=0362-4331}}
• The Someday House, illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger. Orchard Books, 1996.{{Cite web |date= |title=The Someday House by Anne Shelby |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780531095102 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}{{Cite news |date=1996-09-08 |title=Bookshelf |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/08/books/bookshelf.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-05-10 |issn=0362-4331}}
• The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales, illustrated by Paula McArdle, University of North Carolina Press, 2007.{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-shelby/the-adventures-of-molly-whuppie/ |title=THE ADVENTURES OF MOLLY WHUPPIE {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}
• The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree, illustrated by Cor Hazelar, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.

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