Carolyn Marsden

Carolyn Marsden attended Vermont College and earned an MFA in Writing for Children. Her first book, THE GOLD-THREADED DRESS, published by Candlewick, was a Booklist Top Ten Youth Novel of 2002. Her second novel, SILK UMBRELLAS, was a Texas Bluebonnet nominee and Booklist Top Ten Art Novel of 2003. Since then, Carolyn has published many more award-winning middle grade and YA novels with Candlewick, Viking, and Carolrhoda, almost all with multicultural/historical themes. Her latest novel, THE WHITE ZONE, came out in Feb. 2012 from Carolrhoda Press.