Sue Ann Alderson, Date of Birth

Sue Ann Alderson

American children's novelist

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1940

Profession: writer, children's writer

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sue Ann Alderson (born September 11, 1940), an American children's novelist, was born in 1940 in New York City.
She earned a B.A.
in English from Ohio State University in 1962 and an M.A.
in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.
Alderson moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1967 where she taught at Simon Fraser University.
She also was a professor in the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia.Alderson writes for various ages and in different genres.
Some common themes in her writing, however, are "the empowerment of children, the joys of animals and nature, the pleasure of cooperative projects and the value of individuality and imagination."