Her family moved to Southern California when she was eleven. Cushman writes about universal issues - the search for identity, perseverance, limitations, and the humane treatment of all individuals.Ĭushman was born on October 4, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois, to Arthur and Loretta Lipski. Her characters possess hope, determination, and imagination.
Cushman's protagonists are strong females who have a will of their own that surfaces as they discover their identity.
Cushman's novels, set in diverse social and historical settings, are about the aristocracy and homeless in medieval England and the California gold rush however, the struggles faced by her heroines are timeless.
Six months later, Cushman finished her second novel, The Midwife's Apprentice (1996), and earned the Newbery Medal.
Study Help for All 1990s Newbery Medal WinnersĪ contemporary writer of historical fiction for young adults, Karen Cushman considers herself to be a "late bloomer." At age 53, she wrote her first novel, Catherine, Called Birdy (1995), a novel that won numerous awards including a Newbery Honor. Introduction to the 1990s Newbery Medal Winners. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call-by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.Unfortunately, he is also the richest. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man-any rich man, no mater how awful.But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father? Deus Not if Catherine has anything to say about it Catherine feels trapped. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call-by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all. But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Her father is determined to marry her off to arich man-any rich man, no matter how awful. "Corpus Bones I utterly loathe my life."Catherine feels trapped.
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