BiographyNancy Antle is the author of many works for children and young adults including poems, short stories, picture books, beginning readers, and novels. Her stories and poems have appeared in Cricket Magazine, Children’s Playmate and Blast Off. Her story, THE KING’S CURE FOR HICCUPS, was published in Blast Off (an Australian Publication) in 1992 and received the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Magazine Merit Award. School Zone, Viking, Dial and HarperCollins, Australia are the publishers of Nancy’s books. Her easy reader, SAM'S WILD WEST SHOW (Dial, 1995) was named an IRA/ Nancy grew up primarily in Utah and Oklahoma. She studied at Oklahoma State University for three years but then transferred to San Jose State University. She graduated from there in 1979 with a BA in Creative Arts. Over the years Nancy has worked at a variety of jobs -- hotel maid, secretary, teacher’s aide, nursery school teacher, writing instructor and assistant librarian. She has also been a judge and/ Since 1985 Nancy has lived in New Haven, Connecticut where her husband, Rick, is a business school professor. Her daughter, Elizabeth, graduated with honors from New York University and is working in a daycare in New Haven. Her son, Ben, is attending Occidental College in Los Angeles. She also has a rowdy beagle named Zeke.  Nancy at one and half years old getting an early start learning to read.  Nancy with her husband, Rick, in Napa, CA |
 QUICK FACTS ABOUT NANCYBORN: October 11, 1955 in Madison, Wisconsin SIBLINGS: 2 sisters CHILDREN: 2, a girl and a boy MEMBERSHIP: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators The Author's Guild The Mystery Writer's of America FAVORITES: COLOR: Green BOOK: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton TV SHOWS: CSI, Bones, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dexter MOVIES: The Thin Man, Cannery Row, The Fifth Element, Sideways MUSIC: Jazz, Rock, Country HOBBIES: Reading, eating, reading, jogging, reading, weight lifting, reading, book collecting, reading… FOOD: Pasta PLACE: Southern Utah QUOTE: “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot |
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