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Jennifer Armstrong

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Jennifer Armstrong


Born
in The United States
May 19, 1961

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Jennifer Armstrong learned to read and write in Switzerland, in a small school for English speaking children on the shores of Lake Zurich. The school library had no librarian and no catalog – just shelves of interesting books. She selected books on her own, read what she could, and made up the rest. It was perfect. As a result, she made her career choice – to become an author – in first grade. When she and her family returned to the U.S. she discovered that not all children wrote stories and read books, and that not all teachers thought reading real books was important. Nevertheless, she was undaunted. Within a year of leaving college she was a free-lance ghost writer for a popular juvenile book series, and before long published her first t ...more

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“For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.”
Jennifer Armstrong, Becoming Mary Mehan

“But if you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going. That was the thought which sailed us through the hurricane and tugged us up and down those mountains... and when we got to the whaling station, it was the thought of those comrades which made us so mad with joy that the reaction beats all effort to describe it. We didn't so much feel that we were safe as that they were saved.”
Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance

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