birth_date genre article_title name occupation
february 16th 1955 children 's literature elizabeth wellburn
 elizabeth wellburn author , educator
elizabeth wellburn

elizabeth wellburn is a canadian author .
her writing has been in the areas of fiction for children and educational technology .
in 1998 , her book `` echoes from the square '' -lrb- isbn 0-921156-99-5 -rrb- was published .
it tells a fictionalized story based on the real musician , vedran smailovic adding the character of a young boy who learns to cope in the aftermath of war in sarajevo .
the paintings for the book were created by deryk houston .
elizabeth , deryk and their children live in victoria , british columbia .
