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We wish Jane Resh Thomas, whose birthday is August 15th, another year of health, well-being, and writing of her marvelous books. Growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, she was given the love of books by her mother and the love of the outdoors by her father. "I relied on books, as I did on nature," she has said, "not only to entertain but to sustain myself." She worked first as a registered nurse, and then taught composition at the University of Minnesota for 13 years while she did freelance writing and editing. Thomas was the children's books columnist for the Minneapolis StarTribune for more than twenty-five years. Her first book was Elizabeth Catches a Fish, published in 1977. Among her other books are Comeback Dog, The Princess in the Pigpen, Lights on the River, and Behind the Mask: the Life of Elizabeth I (1998), which has been recommended by numerous authorities and review agencies as a passionate, well-researched, and altogether human look at Britain's monarch, Elizabeth I. In 1999, this book won the Minnesota Book Award for Children's Nonfiction. In 2001, Jane Resh Thomas was given the 2001 Kerlan Award, along with the late illustrator Don Freeman, for "singular attainment in the creation of children's literature." Today, she continues to write, mentors other writers, teaches in Vermont College's writing for children program, and is a valued member of the CLN community.
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