Date of Birth
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28-May-1955
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Place of Birth
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Baltimore
(Maryland, Baltimore County, United States of America, Area code 410, Area code 443, Area code 667, Area codes 410, 443, and 667)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Chloe Cheshire
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Profession
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Librarian, Author, Writer
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Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at The Park School in Brooklandville, Maryland.
She received the 2008 Newbery Medal for her children's book entitled Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, and the 2013 Newbery Honor for her children's book, Splendors and Glooms. Her other published books are The Night Fairy, The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm, A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama, and The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy.
Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and graduated in 1977.
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