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Jennifer Voigt Kaplan

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Germany

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Children's, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction

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August 2015

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Jennifer Voigt Kaplan is an award-winning author of children’s fiction. Her debut children’s novel, CRUSHING THE RED FLOWERS, was recognized in six literary contests before its publication, including earning a Letter of Merit for the SCBWI Work-in-Progress Grant and winning the middle-grade category of Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize for Fiction. Jennifer was born in Germany, raised in Philadelphia, and now resides in the New York City area.

Outside of writing, Jennifer founded The Public Arts Council, her town’s first organization dedicated to public arts. When she’s not inventing people in her head, she’s painting murals on underpasses, wishing she had more time to watch sci-fi movies, and arguing that there should be no limit on the num ...more

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Crushing the Red Flowers

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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― Frank Zappa

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