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Laura Golden

Goodreads Author

Born

in Birmingham, AL, The United States

Website

http://www.authorlauragolden.com

Twitter

laurapgolden

Genre

Children's, Historical Fiction

Influences

Katherine Paterson, Kate DiCamillo, Ruth White, Harper Lee, Fannie Fla ...more

Member Since

August 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/lgolden

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Laura Golden was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She never dreamed she'd one day become an author, but there is no doubt that she has always been a reader. According to her mother, she taught herself to read at an early age by poring over the words on cereal boxes at breakfast.

Her fondest memories of childhood reading include listening to Disney Read-Along cassette tapes for hours at a time and discovering Judy Blume's TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING and Marguerite Henry's KING OF THE WIND in the school library. Later on she would discover the classic Southern novels TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE by fellow Alabama authors Harper Lee and Fannie Flagg.

Laura remains an Alabama-girl, living in the countr ...more