Emily Arnold McCully

Emily Arnold McCully graduated from Brown University and earned an MA in history at Columbia University. She is the author of two adult novels and has had her work selected as an O’Henry Prize Story. She has been writing and illustrating children’s books since the sixties and has received numerous awards, including a Christopher Award for Picnic, a Caldecott Medal for Mirette on the High Wire, and a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for The Escape of Oney Judge. Her biography of Ida M. Tarbell was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults.