Sharon Creech
1 book analyzed
Biography
Sharon Creech (born 1945 in South Euclid, Ohio) grew up in a large, storytelling family with roots in rural Kentucky. She studied literature and writing in college, then spent eighteen years living and teaching in England and Switzerland before returning to the United States. Walk Two Moons, her second novel, won the Newbery Medal in 1995. Creech has spoken extensively about the autobiographical roots of the book: her family's Kentucky farm, her own experience of displacement when her family moved, and her fascination with the gap between the stories families tell and the truths those stories conceal. The road trip across America in the novel was inspired by a trip Creech took with her own family, and Sal's voice was the first thing Creech found — the rest of the story grew from a thirteen-year-old girl who needed to get somewhere and was telling someone else's story to avoid telling her own.