Richard Peck
Richard Peck has written more than 30 novels for age groups from middle-graders to young adults. He is the winner of the 1990 Margaret A. Edwards Award sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association, the 1990 National Council of Teachers of English/ALAN Award for outstanding contributions to young-adult literature and the Edgar Award. His A Year Down Yonder (2001) won the 2001 Newbery Medal, and its prequel, A Long Way from Chicago, was a National Book Award finalist and a Newbery Honor Book. His recent book is Past Perfect, Present Tense (Penguin, 2004). He lives in New York City.
