Marion Dane Bauer

Marion Dane Bauer is an American children's author born in 1938, known for writing board books, picture books, early readers, middle-grade fiction, young adult novels, and nonfiction. Her novel On My Honor received a Newbery Honor, and she has also been a founding faculty member and first Faculty Chair of the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Oglesby, Illinois, USA Nov 20, 1938 Wikipedia Website
children's literature picture books middle-grade fiction young adult fiction nonfiction