Chara M. Curtis Explained

Chara M. Curtis is a writer and children's book author from Minnesota.

Biography

Chara Mahar Curtis was born in Minnesota, worked in advertising and music publishing in Chicago and Nashville before becoming a full-time writer.

Chara has lived in a variety of places, including northern Wisconsin, Nashville, Chicago, and Istanbul. She now makes her home near the San Juan Islands of Washington.

She is a daughter of Radio/TV News & Sports personality Harold Richard "Dick" Eugene Mahar and Gloria Estelle LaValleur Mahar Shemorry and has six siblings (in order of age): Richard, Pamela, Jennifer, twins Debra & Douglas, and Bonnie.

Bibliography

• How Far to Heaven (1993)
• All I See Is Part of Me (1994)
• No One Walks on My Father's Moon (1996). Voyage Publishing. .^[1]
• Fun Is a Feeling (1998)

Awards

• 1996 Body Mind Spirit Magazine Award of Excellence for All I See is Part of Me
• 1997 Washington State Governor's Writers Award for No One Walks on My Father's Moon

External links

• Biography at Illumination Arts

Notes and References

1. News: Children's Review: No One Walks on My Father's Moon by Chara M. Curtis / Author, Rebecca Hyland, Illustrator. October 2, 1996. Publishers Weekly. June 12, 2011.