Brief Bio For Busy Librarians (and other readers)

Nancy Means Wright is the author of 14 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including a YA novel (E.P. Dutton) and 5 adult mystery novels (St. Martin's Press), featuring earthy, hot-tempered Vermont dairy farmer, Ruth Willmarth—most recently, Mad Cow Nightmare.  Wright's mother threw out her first (age 10) manuscript about the kidnapping of a pestiferous older brother, but the author redeems herself with The Pea Soup Poisonings, based on her children's childhood adventures—it has just won an Agatha Award for 2006 Best Children's/YA Novel; a sequel, The Great Circus Train Robbery, is forthcoming late fall of 2007.  Her short stories and poems have appeared in dozens of magazines, including American Literary Review, Seventeen, Green Mountains Review, Carolina Quarterly, Redbook, et al., and in numerous anthologies: Beacon Press, St. Martin's Press, U. of Illinois Press …  A former Bread Loaf Scholar; grant winner from the Society of Children's Book Writers; current Scholar for the Vermont Humanities Council; play director and longtime teacher, she lives on a dirt road in Cornwall, Vermont with her spouse and two Maine Coon cats.

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