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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