Background
Lynda Durrant was born on December 17, 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. She was raised in Ohio by her parents Oliver Durrant, an engineer, and Shirley (Petersen) Durrant, a teacher.
Lynda Durrant received both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1979 and 1982, respectively.
(Echohawk was a little boy when he was taken from his whit...)
Echohawk was a little boy when he was taken from his white family and adopted into a Mohican tribe. For years Echohawk has been speaking and thinking in the Mohican language. He enjoys hunting with his adoptive father Glickihigan and younger brother Bamaineo. Yet as time passes, Glickihigan thinks an English education will help his sons in the changing world and sends them to be schooled by white people. It's then that Echohawk's earliest memories return. Soon the time will come for him to choose between the world of the Mohicans and the world he came from long ago.
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1996
(On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Mary Campbell get...)
On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Mary Campbell gets angry with her mother and storms out of the cabin - never to return. As she picks wild strawberries and plans her apology, Mary is captured by Delaware Indians and plunged into a life that is fearsome, strenuous, and utterly unlike the one she knows, beginning with the journey on foot from Pennsylvania to the Delawares' new home in Ohio Territory.
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1998
(Set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century ...)
Set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century America, the thrilling sequel to Echohawk has Echohawk and his family embarking on a perilous journey to the Ohio Territory to find more of their people.
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1999
(Thirteen-year-old Betsy Zane is bored with her privileged...)
Thirteen-year-old Betsy Zane is bored with her privileged life in Philadelphia, bored with her great-aunt’s stories about the old days, and bored with trying to be a lady. She longs to rejoin her brothers at the family homestead along the Ohio River, where she can finally be free to enjoy the unspoiled countryside that she has missed ever since she was forced to leave it as a child.
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2000
(In 1783, when John Chapman was nine, his father planted s...)
In 1783, when John Chapman was nine, his father planted some apple seeds around their one-room cabin. A few years later, the fruit of those apple trees was feeding the growing Chapman family. Young Johnny marveled how all that was needed for this miracle to occur was the sun, the rain, and the apple seed... and so the “seeds” of a remarkable life took root. This engaging new account of a man whose name is known to all American schoolchildren incorporates the facts of John Chapman’s life while evoking the fanciful and fantastic aspects of his character.
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2003
(Jennie Hodgers dressed as a boy for the first time in ord...)
Jennie Hodgers dressed as a boy for the first time in order to help support her impoverished Irish family with a shepherd’s wages. Then her arrival in America confirmed her belief that the world offers better opportunities to young men than to young women. So Jennie maintained her outward identity as Albert Cashier, serving as a grocery clerk in Queens, New York; as a farmhand in Ohio; and as a recruit in the 95th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. Not only did she survive three years in combat with her true identity undiscovered, she chose to continue living as Albert for nearly all of her life.
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2006
(Lynda Durrant is an award-winning author of historic fict...)
Lynda Durrant is an award-winning author of historic fiction novels for children. A reincarnationist, the author drew on her own past lives to write her novel for adults, Joshua’s Fire.
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2011
(Ariel Bradley is Washington’s boy spy who pretends to be ...)
Ariel Bradley is Washington’s boy spy who pretends to be a country bumpkin (a “Johnny Raw”). He ‘stumbles’ into General Howe’s camp “looking for the mill” his father has sent him in search of. In reality, he is assessing the strength and numbers of the British and their Hessian (German) allies. After he is sent on his way by the unsuspecting English, he reports this to General Washington and his staff. This information proves key in what became known as the Battle of White Plains.
https://www.amazon.com/Ariel-Bradley-Spy-General-Washington/dp/0983290490/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Revenge is best served sweet."Little by little, kill the ...)
Revenge is best served sweet."Little by little, kill the Beast with sugar and salt."Celia Denham blames her husband, Dr. Kirby Denham, for their daughter's death. Kirby was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes as a child and has been on a special diet and insulin ever since. As Kirby's health fails, Celia's revenge is bittersweet. Kirby wasn't there when their daughter needed him the most, but Celia wasn't there either. Are they both at fault? Or was her death no one's fault? Kirby is responsible for hundreds of deaths in the little town of Denhamville, NC and throughout the Southeastern United States, even as far away as Florida. As Celia and Kirby clash and the tension explodes, the little town of Denhamville will never again be the same.
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2019
Lynda Durrant was born on December 17, 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. She was raised in Ohio by her parents Oliver Durrant, an engineer, and Shirley (Petersen) Durrant, a teacher.
Lynda Durrant received both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1979 and 1982, respectively.
Lynda Durrant has been a teacher and writer. Her novels are about the colonial and Federalist period, and the American Civil War era. Her specialty is writing historically accurate novels about the forgotten heroines of American history and how they link our nation’s past to the present. Lynda’s most recent novel is for adult readers. The House at Hurds’ Corners was published by her local historical society as a fundraiser for her township’s bicentennial.
In addition, she authored a number of books, including The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell (1998), Turtle Clan Journey (1999), Echohawk (1996), Betsy Zane, the Rose of Fort Henry (2000), and The Sun, the Rain, and the Apple Seed: A Novel of Johnny Appleseed"s Life (2003), My Last Skirt (2006) and Imperfections (2008). Moreover, much of Durrant's writing has been professionally recognized.
Lynda Durrant currently resides in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, teaches writing classes, and continues to write.
(Set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century ...)
1999(Thirteen-year-old Betsy Zane is bored with her privileged...)
2000(Jennie Hodgers dressed as a boy for the first time in ord...)
2006(On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Mary Campbell get...)
1998(In 1783, when John Chapman was nine, his father planted s...)
2003(Echohawk was a little boy when he was taken from his whit...)
1996(Ariel Bradley is Washington’s boy spy who pretends to be ...)
2013(Lynda Durrant is an award-winning author of historic fict...)
2011(Revenge is best served sweet."Little by little, kill the ...)
2019Durrant's political views are described as political moderate.
Quotations:
"My advice to young authors is to read, read, read! Why do you like your favorites? Why do you like, for example, historic fiction over science fiction? Or nonfiction over poetry? Try your hand at writing your own version of your favorite genre... Get into the habit of writing every day. Writing is like anything else - piano, soccer, and karate - the more you do it, the better you become."
"I write to a child's enthusiasm, curiosity, and more than anything else, a child's willingness to suspend his disbelief. A children's book could seem outlandish, even repulsive, in any other medium. Children give the writer the benefit of the doubt. That's what makes children's books so special."
Lynda Durrant married business executive Wesley Lemmon on May 27, 1989. They have a child, Jonathan.