Authors and Illustrators Biographies

Deborah Nourse Lattimore began writing and illustrating books for young and zesty readers when she was in the 6th grade at Beverly Hills California.

Asked to write something about ancient Egypt for a local paper competition, she won the contest with her story "Egypt from a Camel's Point of View." Wining scholaships to Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, she also attended UCLA studying art, art history and archelology as well as near eastern studies in graduate school. Deborah studied writing for young people with Sue Alexander and illustration with Diane Goode.

When an editor from HarperCollins liked her work and offered a contract, Deborah was so excited she accidently burned a chicken in the oven. Now she tells her students at UCLA, "If you want to get published it doesn't hurt to make a little burnt offering to the gods in the process." Ms. Lattimore has traveled all over the world as a scholar, an artist, and a writer. She loves creating picture books that take young readers on amazing journeys back through time to ancient and mysterious cultures. "When I'm not writing or illustrating," Deborah says, "I'm often teaching at UCLA, Art Center College of Design (in Pasdena, California), or doing workshops in the U.S. or in Europe."

Nancy Barnett	North/Central	April 2003
Carol Benioff	East Bay	May 2003
Cindy Ann Ganaden	South San Francisco	June2003
Deborah Nourse Lattimore	North/Central	July 2003
Sara Iravani Kahn	South San Francisco	September 2003
Elisa Kleven	North/Central	October 2003
Jan Adkins	North/Central	November 2003
Joy Allen	North/Central	December 2003
Yuyi Morales	East Bay	January 2004
Liz Cunningham	East Bay	February 2004
Brooke Scudder	South San Francisco	March 2004
Paula Pertile	South San Francisco	April 2004
Lauren Francis	South San Francisco	May 2004
Mike Maystead	South San Francisco	July 2004
Kris Aro McLeod	North/Central	August 2004

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