Megan Shull (born 1968) is an American author of books for children and young adults. Some of her best known works are
'The Swap'(
HarperCollins
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, 2014)—adapted as a
Disney Channel Original Movie
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'Bounce'(HarperCollins, 2016) and the award-winning young adult nove
'Amazing Grace.'(
Disney Hyperion
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, 2005).
Biography
Born and raised in
Ithaca, New York
Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named a ...
, Shull holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. fro
Cornell University At Cornell, Shull's doctoral work in educational psychology looked at ways to help young people retain their resilience as they navigate adolescence, and gave her inspiration as a writer.
A graduate of
Ithaca High School, Shull competed in youth ice hockey before going on to play for Cornell University. While in graduate school, Shull founded a mentoring program with the women's hockey team. In 2000, she was a team rider for Girls on the Move, a special project o
Outward Bound, USA bicycling coast-to-coast from Portland, Oregon, to New York City.
Shull was given her big break in children's publishing by
Pleasant Rowland Pleasant Thiele Rowland (born Pleasant Williams Thiele; March 8, 1941) is an American educator, reporter, writer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Rowland is best known for creating the American Girl brand. She is also notable for her efforts to re ...
, founder o
American Girl Shull's first two books – 'Yours Truly Skye O'Shea' and 'Skye's the Limit!' – were published by
American Girl.
Today, Shull lives in her hometown, Ithaca.
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1968 births
Living people
Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey players
Writers from Ithaca, New York
Cornell University alumni
American women novelists
American writers of young adult literature
Women writers of young adult literature
Novelists from New York (state)
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York) alumni