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Natale Ghent

Author

HarperCollins Canada, Ltd.
20 Bloor Street East
20th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M4W 1A8
Home City: Toronto
Email: natale.ghent@sympatico.ca
Web: www.nataleghent.com

Born: Illinois
Family: Husband: Brian, Daughter: Wesley, Cats: Bosco, General Sterling Price, Buster

Biography

I was born in Illinois near Chicago. When I was seven, we moved to Ontario. After university (I studied everything from science to Landscape Architecture to English Lit, eventually receiving a specialized honours degree in English Lit from the University of Guelph), I moved to Germany, then California where I studied novel writing and communications at the University of California, San Diego. I worked as a freelance journalist for over 15 years, specializing in food, travel, lifestyle and health, a career that definitely appealed to my myriad interests.

Although I started late writing books, I suppose I've always been a novelist, filling notebooks with my words and pictures ever since I could hold a pencil. But I didn't think I had the concentration and focus to write novels. That was for other people. It wasn't until my daughter was a young woman that I realized I did have it in me. When I finally sat down to write a book, I finished two in one year. One of those books was Piper, published by Orca in Vancouver in 2000. I haven't looked back since.

Published Works

All The Way Home, HarperCollins Canada, 2006
The Book of Living and Dying, HarperCollins Canada, 2005
No Small Thing, HarperCollins Canada, 2003, Candlewick Press UK, 2005,
SohoStreet Korea, 2005
Piper, Orca Book Publishers, Vancouver, 2000

Awards

The Book of Living and Dying
Nominated: CLA Book of the Year
CCBC We Recommend, 2005

No Small Thing
Hackmatack Award for English Fiction, 2006
Silver Birch Honour Book, 2005
Borders Original Voice, 2005
Junior Library Guild, 2005
Nominated: CLA Book of the Year, 2004
Nominated: Rocky Mountain Book Award

Piper
Finalist, Dog Writers of America, 2001
CCBC Our Choice, 2001
Pennsylvania Young Adult Top Forty, 2001

Other Memberships

Writers Union of Canada, CCBC

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