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Kerry Madden

Maggie Valley, North Carolina novels for kids (Viking/Penguin)...GENTLE'S HOLLER, 2005, LOUISIANA'S

About Me

GENTLE'S HOLLERby Kerry MaddenVIKING CHILDREN’S BOOKSStarred Kirkus, Starred Publishers WeeklyNew York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, 2005Chicago Public Library 2005 "Best of the Best" BibliographyBank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year 2005 Selection2006 SIBA Book Award Children's NomineesMaine Book Award Nomination, 2006Finalist for the PEN USA in Children’s Literature, 2006Mark Twain Nomination by the Missouri Association of School Librarianswww.kerrymadden.comMarried to Kiffen Madden-Lunsford, one of thirteen children...He's the middle child of thirteen - six older, six younger...son of Jim and Frances Lunsford.www.kerrymadden.com www.readerville.comThat will get you started and tell you way more than you ever need to know. But way more important than my books are our kids:FLANNERY, LUCY, NORAHFlannery, 18...his band has a myspace: www.myspace.com/theflypercartelLucy, 16...plays basketball, tennis, bass guitar...recently got a nose piercing.Norah...soon to be 8...fairies and fairies and more fairies.I also have written for the LA TIMES, Salon, LA Weekly, WebMD, oh plenty of places...VERY happy NOT TO BE GHOSTWRITING anymore.GENTLE'S HOLLER (starred Kirkus and Publishers Weekly) is a PEN USA Finalist in Children's Literature. It also received a Mark Twain Nomination for Children's Books by the Missouri Association of School Librarians and a Maine Student Book Award Nomination.LOUISIANA'S SONG has just been published by Viking Children's Books!JANE EYRE TRAILER:GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN MUSIC VIDEO!:

My Interests

movies, books, movies, books, music, music...talking walks, hikes...travel...oh if I could hit the road and travel more, I would...eavesdropping, noticing things.

I'd like to meet:

Kids who love to write stories...and bookmobile drivers, blues singers, storytellers, shape note singers

Music:

All kinds...Sacred Harp/Shape Note Singing...Tomi Lunsford...bluegrass, old timey country...give me banjos, fiddles, mandolins, dobros. I love Lucinda Williams. Carter Family, David Olney, Tom House, Townes Van Zandt, Emmylou Harris...I love Patsy, Loretta, Kitty...I also like Franz Ferdinand (Sp?) and flypaper cartel and T-Rex, Modest Mouse...and others...I could go on and on...I need music. I love Hank Williams. I love that hard country that is pure lonesome...I could drive for hours listening to music.

Movies:

THE LIVES OF OTHERS, INFAMOUS, YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, BABETTE'S FEAST, GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS, A STREET CAR NAMED DESIRE, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, LOOK BOTH WAYS, HALF NELSON, COALMINER'S DAUGHTER, WALK THE LINE, SWEET DREAMS, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKYLN...and I bet DREAM GIRLS...

Television:

GRAY'S ANATAOMY (WITH LUCY) LAW & ORDER (WITH LUCY I can't stand America's Top Model or any reality show...I don't care for LOST...I just don't care...I hate giving my time for TV...but I love to watch crime shows with Lucy, and I love love love SIX FEET UNDER, WEEDS, THE SOPRANOS, HUFF. We don't have cable so I rent them as a season, so it's like reading a novel.

Books:

HARPER LEE, POE BALLANTINE, HEATHER KING, ALICE MUNRO, FLANNERY O'CONNOR, ANTON CHEKHOV, KAREN CUSHMAN, NANCY WERLIN, AMY GOLDMAN KOSS, ALICE MCDERMOTT, FRANCINE PROSE, WILLIAM FAULKNER, CARSON MCCULLERS, STEPHEN KUUSISTO, DONNA TARTT, ELLEN SLEZAK, DIANA WAGMAN, DENISE HAMILTON, LEE SMITH, PAMELA DUNCAN, KAREN SPEARS ZACHARIUS'S HERO MAMA, CATHERINE LANDIS, JANIS OWENS, CECIL CASTELLUCCI, CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH...so many, too many to list. I love books...our home is overflowing with books and more books. TO BE CONTINUED CONSTANTLY...

Heroes:

Flannery O'Connor, Harper Lee,

My Blog

Home From Turkey...jetlag going, going, gone...

The Turkish wind-chimes are blowing outside in the apricot tree. Norah has built a large fort for Hermie the hermit crab to explore. She wants to know if hermit crabs are colorblind. I have no idea. S...
Posted by Kerry Madden on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:51:00 PST

Tuesday, August 22nd in Heathrow...

Norah and I are writing from Heathrow Airport (in London, says Norah) as we have a five hour layover. We bought crisps and Malteazers and Digestive biscuits (much of my entire diet my junior year at M...
Posted by Kerry Madden on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:55:00 PST

Sunday, August 20th in Turkey

Here are some photos. An adapter was located in Bodrum and purchased so the world was righted again with our Mac computers and mother and son fought no more over the Turkish laptop. Here are pictures....
Posted by Kerry Madden on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:53:00 PST

Last morning in Instanbul

Everyone drinks tea throughout the day here in what Eppie calls "sexy tea glasses" because they are actually tiny shapely glass cups always served on saucers with a lumps of sugar. No one puts milk in...
Posted by Kerry Madden on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:01:00 PST

Sunrise in Bodrum and other thoughts as time slips away...

I got up early this morning just after six to watch the sunrise...I woke up Kiffen, and we got Norah up too. (The teens were not interested in sunrise.) The sky was a blue gray color until gradually t...
Posted by Kerry Madden on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:14:00 PST

Flannery and Lucy in Ephesus

Flannery sang on the stage of this ancient amphitheatre that can seat up to 30,000...They used to have rock concerts here but no more...Norah is up early and has befr--ended a green bug. We are off to...
Posted by Kerry Madden on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:24:00 PST

Norah and Emily at the Temple of Athena in Assos


Posted by Kerry Madden on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:12:00 PST

Thursday in Turkey

Yesterday we swam in the Agean Sea all of us, the water warm and thick with salt. Norah clung to our necks like a giant pincher crab, all memory of swimming lessons fled, so whichever adult held her w...
Posted by Kerry Madden on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:36:00 PST

Turkey Day Something

I have lost all sense of time but not place in Turkey. I will try to gather my wits to describe these last few days. We left Istanbul in a min---bus on Saturday w--th the follow--ng travelers. [I cann...
Posted by Kerry Madden on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:49:00 PST

TURKEY DAY FOUR

We leave for Troy and Efesus today - in a few moments actually but I am not sure if we will have Internet access down Bodrum our eventual destination for the next f--ve days or so. The name of the poe...
Posted by Kerry Madden on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:34:00 PST