Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she was
fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different
army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. After
graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in
the early 1970's, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the
first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the island of
Crete. She then joined up with a group of European young
people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian
countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and
Nepal. She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a
waitress, a travel agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant
-- all before becoming an author! Now she is the author
of many highly acclaimed picture books, early chapter books,
middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels. In
February 1993, Mary was elected the 27th president of the Author's
Guild, the oldest, most established organization for writers in the
United States.
Mary her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in
Greenwich Village, New York and a cabin in
Pennsylvania. They own a terrier named Bailey, who
sleeps on the top of Mary's desk every day while she writes!
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