Marion Dane Bauer (May 20, 1938)

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Marion Dane Bauer (born 1938) is an American children's author.

Born and brought up in Oglesby, a small prairie town in Northern Illinois, she was educated at LaSalle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College, the University of Missouri and the University of Oklahoma, where she graduated in 1962. She married Ronald Bauer, raising their two children as well as being a foster parent for other children. She has taught English at a Wisconsin high school and classes in creative writing in Minnesota.

Rain of Fire (1983) won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award in 1984. Bauer received the Kerlan Award in 1986. On My Honor (1986) won a Newbery Medal Honor in 1987, and won the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 1989. Am I Blue, an anthology of children's fiction about gay and lesbian issues, won a Lambda Literary Award in 1994, and the Stonewall Book Award for literature in 1995. The Longest Night won a Golden Kite Award for picture-book text in 2009.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Dane_Bauer

Further Readings:

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen; Reprint edition (April 15, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0064405877
ISBN-13: 978-0064405874
Amazon: Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

Original stories by C. S. Adler, Marion Dane Bauer, Francesca Lia Block, Bruce Coville, Nancy Garden, James Cross Giblin, Ellen Howard, M. E. Kerr, Jonathan London, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, Lesléa Newman, Cristina Salat, William Sleator, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jane Yolen

Each of these stories is original, each is by a noted author for young adults, and each honestly portrays its subject and theme--growing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends.