Michelle Knudsen is a New York Times best-selling American children's author.[1] She has written 50 books for children, including the multiple-award-winning Library Lion, the Trelian middle grade fantasy trilogy, and the Evil Librarian young adult horror/comedy/romance trilogy.
Michelle Knudsen
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Knudsen author photo, May 2015
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| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Cornell University Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA) |
| Genre | Children's literature |
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Knudsen graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.[2][3] She currently teaches in Lesley University's MFA program in creative writing.
Michelle Knudsen is a New York Times best-selling author of 50 books for young readers, including board books, picture books, early readers, and middle grade and young adult novels. Her best-known book to date is the award-winning picture book Library Lion, which has been translated into fourteen languages, is currently[as of?] being performed as a musical stage production in Israel and South Africa, and was selected by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Best Children's Books of All Time. She is also the author of the Trelian trilogy of fantasy novels (The Dragon of Trelian, The Princess of Trelian, and The Mage of Trelian) and the Evil Librarian trilogy of young adult novels, the first of which was awarded the 2015 Sid Fleischman Award for Humor. Michelle also works as a freelance editor and writing teacher, and is a member of the Writing for Young People MFA faculty at Lesley University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.[4]
