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Karen Hesse was born on 29 August, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American writer. Discover Karen Hesse's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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71 years old |
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Virgo |
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29 August 1952 |
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29 August |
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Baltimore, Maryland |
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United States
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Karen Hesse Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Karen Hesse's Husband?
Her husband is Randy Hesse
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Randy Hesse |
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Kate Hesse, Rachel Hesse |
Karen Hesse Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Karen Hesse worth at the age of 71 years old? Karen Hesse’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. She is from United States. We have estimated Karen Hesse's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Brooklyn Bridge is based on the true story of the family who created the teddy bear in Brooklyn in 1903.
At age 68 years, she was living with her husband, still in Brattleboro, Vermont.
The Ku Klux Klan, re-invigorated in the 1920s (in this book, 1924 and '25) tries to take over a small Vermont town.
The book is written from the perspectives of several people - Merlin Van Tornhout and Johnny Reeves, both members of the Klan; Sara Chickering, a farmer; Esther Hirsh, a six-year-old Jewish girl; Leonora Sutter, an African American girl; Iris Weaver, a restaurateur; Harvey and Viola Pettibone, shop owners; Reynard Alexander, a newspaper editor; Fitzgerald Flitt, the doctor; and Percelle Johnson, the town constable.
In Witness Hesse continued the distinctive poetic/prose style she pioneered in Out of the Dust.
Hesse also wrote The Music of Dolphins, about a girl who was raised by dolphins.
Karen S. Hesse (born August 29, 1952) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings.
She studied math at nearby Towson State College and married Randy Hesse in 1971 before completing her studies.
She attended college at Towson University, the University of Maryland, and College Park.
She earned a B.A. in English with double minors in psychology, and anthropology, during which she began writing poetry.
After graduating, she moved with her husband to Brattleboro, Vermont, had two children, Rachel and Kate, took jobs in publishing, and started writing children's books.
Her first novel was a rejected story about meeting Bigfoot, but her next proposal was published by Henry Holt in 1991 as Wish on a Unicorn.
Out of the Dust is a story of a girl living through the dust bowl of the Depression.
The mother of the central character dies giving birth to her stillborn brother Franklin.
After the mother dies, Billie Jo and her father try to continue with their lives.
Letters from Rifka (MacMillan, 1992) won an International Reading Association Award and a National Jewish Book Award.
She received the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (1997).
Karen Hesse was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
For Out of the Dust (Scholastic, 1997), she won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children", and the annual Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.
Stowaway, first published in 2000 by Simon & Schuster USA, is based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour in 1768.
The UK version of this book is published under the title Young Nick's Head.
It is in the format of a diary written by Nicholas Young, the cabin boy on the Endeavour.
Hesse tackled a more disturbing subject in the 2001 verse novel Witness.
Hesse was a MacArthur Fellow in 2002.
In 2012 Hesse received the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association for Letters from Rifka, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.
