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Jacquelyn Mitchard

A New York Times Bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard is an author who was born in Chicago, Illinois on back to December 10, 1955. She has nine children, they are variety of ages of 5 to 31 years old. Some are adopted. Now she lives near Madison, Wisconsin with her kids and her second husband, horses, cats, and goats. Mitchard looks doesn’t have any trouble; however, her first husband died from cancer in 1993, and it was not easy to reach the now state. In her earlier life, she did not have any formal training to become a writer. She just did a semester in Creative Writing as an elective class during her freshman year at the University of Illinois. Before that she was the first kid to graduate high school in her family,
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She is also the author of seven novels for young adults. Her work has won the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards. As well as the UK’s Walkabout Prize and has been short-listed for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (jacquelynmitchard.com/biography).

The biggest conflict in her life, besides her husband’s death, is that her financier, Trevor Cook, took all of her money when Jacquelyn was a millionaire in 2009. More than 1,000 people were cheated by Cook and he took 190 million. He was convicted as 25 years jail in prison in 2010. The good thing is both Jacquelyn and her husband are trying new ways to bring in money again. (Dailymail.com) Even a New York Times Bestselling author has experienced and faced problems and conflicts. Her life shows about how difficult is to be success, and the importance of every person’s dream. Jacquelyn is not only a best author in the nation, she is also a hyper-patient woman. As a female, her way of raising nine kids while having several life issues, but not looking down, is not every woman have experienced, or even try. It is worth to admire her, and respect

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