Eve bunting biography first book
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“A friend once told me that I should slow down
and take a rest from writing once in a while.
How could I? For me, writing is like breathing.
It's just plain necessary.”
Eve Bunting was born and educated in Northern Ireland. In she came to the United States with her husband and three children and settled in California. In she became a U.S. citizen. She has written more than two hundred books, though she didn’t begin her writing career until age forty. Her first book, The Two Giants, was published in “It was a story about Finn McCool, the Irish giant, and how he outsmarted Culcullan, the terrible Scottish giant,” she says. “I thought everybody in the world knew that story, and when I found they didn't—well, I thought they should.”
Since that first book, Eve has gone on to write many more, ranging from picture books to novels for young adults. Her honors include the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers; the Southern California Council on Literatu
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Obituary: Eve Bunting
Award-winning, versatile, and prolific children’s author Eve Bunting died on October 1 in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was
She was born on December in Maghera, a small town in County Derry, Northern Ireland, to parents Sloan and Mary Bolton. The Boltons ran the busy and well-respected local post office/shop selling produce and grocery items. Through their shop, the family also provided a lending library for the town, filled with books and poetry. Eve’s parents often asked her to recite poems and biblical verses, a practice that helped her develop a facility with language, rhythm, and rhyme that served her well throughout her life as both a writer and a public speaker.
When Bunting was nine years old, she was sent to boarding school at Methodist College in Belfast. In her autobiography for Something About the Author, Bunting recalled that the school had no radios, so students served up their own entertainment. &ldqu
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