Clare Vanderpool
{{short description|American novelist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1965}}
| birth_place = Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
| occupation = Author
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| notableworks = Moon Over Manifest (2010) Navigating Early (2013)
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| website = {{URL|clarevanderpool.com}}
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Clare Vanderpool (born 1965) is an American children's book author living in Wichita, Kansas. Her first book, Moon Over Manifest, won the 2011 Newbery Medal,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm |title=ALA | |access-date=2011-03-31 |archive-date=2009-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216100447/http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm |url-status=dead }} becoming the first debut author to achieve the feat in thirty years.{{cite web|last=Random House speakers|title=About Clare Vanderpool|url=http://www.rhspeakers.com/speaker/clare-vanderpool/?v=about|accessdate=14 June 2013}} She is also the first Kansas native to win the Newbery Medal.{{cite news|last=Udagawa|first=Avery Fischer|title=An Interview with Clare Vanderpool|url=http://www.literarymama.com/profiles/archives/2011/05/an-interview-with-clare-vander.html|accessdate=14 June 2013|date=22 May 2011}} Vanderpool is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.{{cite web|last=Kennedy|first=Elizabeth|title=An Interview with author Clare Vanderpool|url=http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/authorsillustrato/a/An-Interview-With-The-2011-Newbery-Medal-Winner.htm|accessdate=14 June 2013|archive-date=12 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512200018/http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/authorsillustrato/a/An-Interview-With-The-2011-Newbery-Medal-Winner.htm|url-status=dead}} Her book Navigating Early was named a 2014 Printz Honor Book.
Biography
Clare Vanderpool attended Blessed Sacrament elementary school, and later graduated from Newman University in 1987.{{cite web |url=http://news.newmanu.edu/2010/10/22/alumni-luncheon-to-feature-author-clare-vanderpool/ |title=Alumni Luncheon to feature author Clare Vanderpool « Newman University |accessdate=2011-03-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823053604/http://news.newmanu.edu/2010/10/22/alumni-luncheon-to-feature-author-clare-vanderpool/ |archivedate=2011-08-23 }}{{cite web| url=http://www.tla1.com/children_author2.php?id=256 | title=Clare Vanderpool | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308175940/http://www.tla1.com/children_author2.php?id=256 | archive-date=2012-03-08}} Clare decided she wanted to be a writer in the fifth grade, and realized her childhood dream at the age of 45 when her first book was published.{{cite news|last=KidsPost staff writer|title=Interview with Clare Vanderpool, Newbery Award winner|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020804790.html|accessdate=14 June 2013|newspaper=Washington Post|date=8 February 2011}} As a young adult in the late 80s and early 90s she worked for the local Catholic diocese as Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry, where she was known as a lovable goof. She is married and lives with her husband in the College Hill neighborhood of Wichita, Kansas with their four children. She has college degrees of English and elementary education.
She is marry with a girl furry, her name is Nina. Nina is therian.
Works
- Moon Over Manifest (2010)
- Navigating Early (2013) which earned Mathical Honors{{Cite news|title=Mathical Book Prizes 2021|url=https://www.mathicalbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Mathical_Booklist_Web_2021.pdf}}
The Watermark Books and Cafe in Wichita has hosted the book launches for both novels.{{cite web|last=Watermark Books|title=Clare Vanderpool event|url=http://www.watermarkbooks.com/event/clare-vanderpool|accessdate=14 June 2013}}
References
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External links
{{Portal|Children's literature|Kansas}}
- {{official website |www.clarevanderpool.com/ }}
- [http://www.nbclearn.com/writersspeak/cuecard/61569 NBC Learn video interview] aired 19 October 2012 as part of the Writers Speak to Kids series
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Category:Newbery Medal winners
Category:American historical novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Writers from Wichita, Kansas