Franny Billingsley (born July 3, 1954) is the author of three children's fantasy novels, ''Well Wished'', ''The Folk Keeper'', and ''
Chime,'' and the picture book ''Big Bad Bunny.''
Biography
Billingsley graduated from
Tufts University
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in 1976, and from
Boston University Law School in 1979. After moving back to
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, she wrote for many years while working at
57th Street Books in Hyde Park. She is now a full-time author. She has two children.
Billingsley received the
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship is awarded by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) annually to a writer of children's or young-adult fiction of high literary caliber "at a crucial moment in his or her career to complete a ...
in 2003, which is awarded to an author of children's or young-adult fiction of literary merit to complete a manuscript.
Works
*''Well Wished'' (1997)
*''The Folk Keeper'' (1999)
*''Big Bad Bunny'' (2008)
*''
Chime'' (2011)
*''The Robber Girl'' (2021)
Awards
*1998 Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize Honor Book for best fantasy written in the English language (''Well Wished'')
*2000
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
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, Fiction (''The Folk Keeper'')
*2000
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, Children's Literature (''The Folk Keeper'')
*2011
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation (NBF) to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".< ...
finalist (''Chime'')
References
External links
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Franny Billingsley papersat the University of Minnesota
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1954 births
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American children's writers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American women novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers