Amy Gordon

Background

Amy Gordon was born on January 22, 1949, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She is a daughter of Lincoln and Allison (Wright) Gordon.

Education

Amy Gordon attended Wheeler School and later studied at Bard College. She graduated in 1972.

Career

After graduation, Amy Gordon started to work as a teacher at Bement School. She also was a director of the fine arts program. She held this post until 2004. She also taught writing and theater workshops for kids. Now she works at the Gill Elementary School in Massachusetts heading up ACT, an after-school acting program for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders.

Gordon also wrote books for children. Her first book, The Talking Bird and the Story Pouch, was published in 1983. She is the author of eleven books, for young and young-adult readers. One of her last books was Painting the Rainbow, published in 2014.

Achievements

• Amy Gordon is an American writer, who is famous for her children's books, such as The Gorillas of Gill Park and Midnight Magic. In 2004, she received Missouri Association of Librarians award for The Gorillas of Gill Park. Her books were also nominated for Texas Bluebonnet Award, Mark Twain Readers Award and William Allen White Children’s Book Award.

Works

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  • The Secret Life of a Boarding School Brat

    (Bored with her life at her snobby boarding school, Lydia ...)

    2004
  • When JFK Was My Father

    (Thirteen-year-old Georgia is left feeling abandoned by he...)

    1999
  • The Talking Bird and the Story Pouch

    (Storyteller, whose calling has been passed down to him fr...)

    1983
  • Painting the Rainbow

    (Holly and her cousin discover family secrets no one has s...)

    2014
  • Twenty Gold Falcons

    (In this adventure-filled, middle-grade mystery, eleven-ye...)

    2010
  • Magic by Heart

    (When Arietta and her magic cloak are kidnapped by a lonel...)

    2007
  • Midnight Magic 1995
  • The Gorillas of Gill Park 2003

Views

Quotations: "I was a shy person in a very talkative family. I discovered that if I wrote entertaining stories as Christmas presents, I could get the entire family to stop talking and pay attention to me."

Interests

• Writers

  Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain

Connections

Amy Gordon was married to Richard Lawson. The marriage produced two children. In 1995, Amy and Richard divorced. Her current husband is a man named Tim.

Father:

Lincoln Gordon

Mother:

Allison Wright

Ex-husband:

Richard Lawson

Son:

Nick Lawson

Son:

Hugh Lawson