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Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd author biography, plus links to books by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd.

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Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd

Laura Amy Schlitz is the author of The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy and A Drowned Maiden's Hair. She wrote the pieces in Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! for students at the Park School in Baltimore, where she works as a librarian. She has also worked as a storyteller, a costumer, an actress, and a playwright; her plays for young people have been produced in theaters all over the country. Laura Amy Schlitz lives in Baltimore.

Robert Byrd teaches children s book illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He is the author-illustrator of many books, including Leonard: Beautiful Dreamer; Finn Maccoul and His Fearless Wife; and The Hero and the Minotaur. He also illustrated Laura Amy Schlitz s first book for children, The Hero Schliemann, about the life of a nineteenth-century amateur archaeologist. Robert Byrd lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

This biography was last updated on 07/24/2007.

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