About The Author
Although she happened to be born in Chihuahua, Mexico, Susan Lowell is a fourth-generation Arizonan descended from explorers, ranchers, prospectors, and schoolmarms. At the age of seven she began to write little books, illustrating them with crayons and binding them with Scotch tape, and she has never stopped.
After college at Stanford and Princeton Universities, she worked as a journalist and university professor. Now she and her husband, Ross Humphreys, publish books at Rio Nuevo Publishers and distribute them through Treasure Chest Books and Canyonland Publications.
She is the author of fifteen books for adults and children, including The Three Little Javelinas, I Am Lavina Cumming, and Cindy Ellen. Her honors include the Arizona Young Reader Award, two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the Milkweed Editions National Fiction Prize.
Her newest book, The Elephant Quilt, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2008. Based on Western family history—sometimes “written” in quilts—that goes back to Gold Rush days, it was named one of the Southwest Books of the Year for 2008 and included on the 2009 Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year list, 100th Anniversary Edition. And most recently, The Three Little Javelinas/Los Tres pequeños jabalíes became the children’s winner for the ONEBOOKAZ program for 2010.
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