Paul fleischman biography

I grew up in a house built of voices.    

--from SEEK

I grew up in Santa Monica, California, hearing my father, Sid Fleischman, read his books aloud chapter by chapter, as they were written. We've both won the Newbery Medal, he for The Whipping Boy in , I for Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices in

This is my only request. That you make four whirligigs, of a girl who looks like Lea. Put her name on them. Then set them up in Washington, California, Florida, and Maine—the corners of the United States.     

--from WHIRLIGIG

When I was 19, after two years of college in Berkeley, I took a cross-country bicycle and train trip, ending up living in a house in New Hampshire. The years there, leading a modified 18th century lifestyle--wood heating, no electricity or phone--kindled an interest in the past and led to the historical fiction I'd later write.

She's a word person, a glasses-wearing former editor, copyeditor, and proofreader, who dumped her last suitor for giving her a Valentine candy that read "Your mine." Y-O-U-R. No apostrophe, no "e."    

--from BREAKOUT

Words have always been my world. I grew up setting type for our family's hand printing press. After graduating f

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Paul Fleischman grew up in Santa Monica, California, hearing his father, the author Sid Fleischman, read his books out loud. Both father and son would end up winning the Newbery Medal—Sid for The Whipping Boy in , and Paul for Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices in

Paul Fleischman has also received a Newbery Honor for Graven Images, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Bull Run, and the California Young Reader Medal for Weslandia. He was also a National Book Award finalist for Breakout. In he was the United States' author candidate for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award for the entire body of his work.

Fleischman writes that “[w]ords have always been my world.” He grew up setting type for his family's hand-printing press. After graduating from the University of New Mexico, he worked as a bookstore clerk, library shelver, and textbook proofreader, before dedicating his life to writing books. Since then he has written multi-voice poems, plays, novels, and short stories for both adults and children. He currently lives in California with his family.

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Study Guides on Works by Paul Fleischman

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