A Biography of Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky was born in 1944 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She first realized she could be a writer when she was about ten years old. She still remembers the time when she was with her family driving in a car with its top down. “The sky looked so interesting- you couldn’t see the stars because of these wooly clouds. And I said it looked like a sheepback sky. My mom turned around and said, ‘Kathryn, you should be a writer.’ When my mom said that, I thought, ‘Wow, maybe I will.’
She majored in English while she was in college. After college, she worked as a teacher and did some writing for various magazines. She wrote her fist published book while she was teaching. While following a grandfather and his grandson on a typical weekend, she came...