Background
Cutler was born in 1936 in Bronx, New York, United States.
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Spaceman by Jane Cutler (1997-03-01)
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Jane Cutler
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At age 6, she moved to Clayton, Missouri and attended Glenridge School, where she was encouraged to write and participate in sports and drama.
Career
Foreign the Scottish singer Janey Cutler, see Britain"s Got Talent. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English at Northwestern University in 1958 and a Master of Arts in creative writing at San Francisco State University in 1982. Besides her work as a professional book writer, Cutler has taught children"s writing and short story writing at San Francisco State University and Foothill College.
Cutler currently lives in San Francisco, California.
Cutler primarily writes books for small children, but she has also written novels for older readers – young adults, including The Song of the Molimo and My Wartime Summers. In some of her fiction books, Cutler mixes real people and events with imaginary ones.
In 1999, she was chosen by The Bulletin of the Center for Children"s Books as one of the rising stars of the year. In 1994, her book My Wartime Summers became a Notable Social Studies Trade Book (NCSS/Canadian Broadcasting Company).
In 1996, Mr. Carey"s Garden garnered her a Show Maine Readers Award nomination by Missouri Association of School Librarians.
Another book, was listed among Hawaii’s List of Suggested Titles for the 1998 Nene Award. This book was adapted into a musical in Japan. Cutler"s 1998 book The song of Molimo was nominated for a Lamplighter Award 2001-1002.
Achievements
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Cutler received a Herbert Wilner Award for short fiction in 1982 and a Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association prize for short fiction in 1987. The next year, Cutler published Spaceman, which received nominations for a 2000 William Allen White Children"s Book Award. Her 1999 children book The Cello of Mr. O was one of her most successful works, receiving a Patterson Prize for Books for Young People, a Zena Sutherland Award for Children"s Literature, a New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award, and a Golden Kite Award nomination.
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