Laura Amy Schlitz

Laura Amy Schlitz has spent most of her life working as a librarian and professional storyteller and is the author of numerous award-winning books for children, including The Hired Girl, winner of a Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and a National Jewish Book Award; Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, illustrated by Robert Byrd, winner of the Newbery Medal; Splendors and Glooms, a Newbery Honor book and New York Times bestseller; and A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama, the recipient of the inaugural Cybils Award for Middle Grade Fiction.

Lauded as a “master of children’s literature” by The New York Times Book Review, her other works include The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy, illustrated by Robert Byrd; The Bearskinner, illustrated by Max Grafe; and The Night Fairy, illustrated by Angela Barrett.

She lives in Baltimore, where she is currently lower-school librarian at the Park School.