Background

Kovacs was born on October 2, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; the daughter of of Stanton H. Kovacs and Judith Genesen.

Education

Kovacs received a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College in 1975.

Career

Kovacs began her career as a game and record developer at Sesame Workshop in 1975. Three years later she took a position of an editor of Sesame Street Magazine and held it until 1980.

Also Deborah was a founder and creative director of software division at Scholastic Corporation in 1982-1985. Then in 1991, she became an editor of Ocean Explorer Magazine and held it for four years. Since 1997 Kovacs has been a co-founder and editor-in-chief of Turnstone Public Group.

Nowadays she is a freelance writer and editorial director of Walden Pond Press. Deborah has also been editorially responsible for Walden Media’s partnership with Penguin Books for Young Readers.

Achievements

• Kovacs is known for her books such as "The Tooth Fairy Book", "Catie Copley", "Moonlight on the River", "Beneath Blue Waters: Meetings With Remarkable Deep-Sea Creatures" and others.

Works

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  • Very First Things to Know About Bears (American Museum of Natural History)

    (Bringing together everything that American Museum of Natu...)

    1997
  • Beneath Blue Waters: Meetings With Remarkable Deep-Sea Creatures

    (Ventures into the secrets of the deep with a detailed gui...)

    1996
  • Brewster's Courage

    (When Brewster, a black-footed ferret from North Dakota, f...)

    1992
  • Moonlight on the River (Viking Kestrel picture books)

    (Sneaking away from home on a midnight fishing voyage, two...)

    1993
  • Dive to the Deep Ocean: Voyages of Exploration and Discovery (Turnstone Ocean Explorer)

    (Relates the history of deep sea research, explaining how ...)

    2000
  • Woody's First Dictionary: A Woody Woodpecker Book

    (Woody Woodpecker and his friends will keep children laugh...)

    1998
  • The Tooth Fairy Book

    (This delightful kit offers both a book and a lovely velve...)

    1992
  • Evening Song Moondreamers

    (Moondreamers, who feed Earth's children good dreams, batt...)

    1987
  • Catie Copley

    (Catie Copley has a very special job - she is canine ambas...)

    2007
  • Battle of the bands 1986

Connections

Deborah Kovacs is married to Nicholas Sullivan. They have 2 children.

Father:

Stanton H. Kovacs

Mother:

Judith Genesen

Spouse:

Nicholas Sullivan

child:

Lucy Kovacs

child:

Sarah Kovacs