Patricia Lee Gauch (born January 3, 1934) is an author who has written over 30 works of
children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Children's ...
. In 1993, Gauch was inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame. She has been a resident of the
Basking Ridge
Basking Ridge is an Local government in New Jersey#Unincorporated communities, unincorporated community located within Bernards Township, New Jersey, Bernards Township in the Somerset Hills region of Somerset County, New Jersey, Somerset Count ...
section of
Bernards Township, New Jersey
Bernards Township () is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The township is a bedroom suburb of New York City in the much larger New York metropolitan area, located within the Raritan Valley region. As of the 2020 Uni ...
. She was also publisher of
Philomel Books
Philomel Books is a children's literature imprint of Penguin Books USA. The imprint was founded by Ann Beneduce, who was succeeded as publisher by Patricia Lee Gauch.
Philomel publishes the series of children's books '' The Ranger's Apprentic ...
, an
imprint of
Penguin Books USA.
Books
Her books include ''My Old Tree'' (New York: Coward-McCann. 1970), ''Christina Katerina & the Box'' (New York: Putnam & Grosset. 1971)and "The stone soup".
References
External links
Who Wrote That? Featuring Patricia Lee Gauch
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Living people
1934 births
American children's writers
People from Bernards Township, New Jersey
American book publishers (people)