Clare B. Dunkle (born June 11, 1964) is an American children's fantasy author and librarian.
Biography
Dunkle was born Clare Buckalew in
Fort Worth
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According ...
, Texas. She earned a B.A. in Russian with a minor in Latin from
Trinity University in
San Antonio and worked in Trinity University's library after earning her Master of Library Science from
Indiana University Bloomington. For seven years, she and her family lived in the
Rheinland Pfalz region of Germany not far from the Roman city of
Trier. Her daughters (Elena and Valerie) attended a boarding school there and read her first four books as a series of letters from home.
Works
The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy
*''The Hollow Kingdom'' (2003)
*''Close Kin'' (2004)
*''In the Coils of the Snake'' (2005)
The Sky Inside Series
*''The Sky Inside'' (2008) - "In a world well-stocked with genius children, the point-of-view focus through an ordinary boy with questionable free will provides a compelling shift from the expected."
*''The Walls Have Eyes'' (2009) - "After an overly expository start, this simple tale provides comforting, enjoyable adventure."
Other Works
*''By These Ten Bones'' (2005)
*''The House of Dead Maids'' (2010)
*''Elena Vanishing'' (2015)
*''Hope and Other Luxuries: A Mother's Life with a Daughter's Anorexia'' (2015)
Co-author
Dunkle co-wrote ''Elena Vanishing'' (2015) with her daughter, Elena Dunkle. The memoir is a true account of Elena's struggle with ''
anorexia nervosa,'' a disorder that took over her life from the age of 17 all the way past college and into adulthood.
Awards
*''The Hollow Kingdom'' 2004
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
The Mythopoeic Awards for literature and literary studies are given annually for outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas.
Established by the Mythopoeic Society in 1971, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awar ...
for Children's Literature
References
External links
*
Miss Erin Interview with Clare*
*
1964 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
American children's writers
American fantasy writers
American librarians
American women librarians
American women novelists
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Trinity University (Texas) alumni
American women science fiction and fantasy writers
Writers from San Antonio
Novelists from Texas
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