Quote of the day
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Deborah Wiles
Born: May 5, 1953 (age 72)
Bio: Deborah Wiles is an award-winning children's book author. Her second novel, Each Little Bird That Sings, was a 2005 National Book Award finalist. Wiles received the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2004 and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award in 2005.
Known for:
- Countdown (2010)
- Each Little Bird That Sings (2005)
- Freedom Summer (2001)
- Love, Ruby Lavender (2001)
- The Aurora County All-Stars (2007)







