Polly Horvath - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Polly Horvath
- Polly Horvath (born 30 January 1957) is an American-Canadian author of novels for children and young adults.
- She won the 2003 U.S.
- National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Canning Season, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Horvath was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- She has been writing since the age of eight.
- She attended college in Toronto as well as the Canadian College of Dance.
- She lived in New York City and Montreal before settling on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.She was a finalist for the U.S.
- National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1999 (The Trolls) and a runner-up for the Newbery Medal in 2002 (Everything on a Waffle) before winning the National Book Award.
- She won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2013 for One Year in Coal Harbor. Horvath once declared: "I don't have that much fun writing them.
- I have the most fun when I'm on the last page." She is married to Arnie Keller.
- They have two daughters, Emily and Rebecca.
