name: Kathleen Karr
birth_date: 1946-04-21 00:00:00
death_date: 2017-12-06 00:00:00
genres: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Children's
avg_rating: 3.97
ratings_count: 4031
about: Kathleen Karr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and grew up on a chicken farm in Dorothy, New Jersey. After escaping to college, she worked in the film industry, and also taught in high school and college. She seriously began writing fiction on a dare from her husband. After honing her skills in women’s fiction, her children asked her to write a book for them, (It Ain’t Always Easy, Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 1990), and she discovered she loved writing for young readers.