Megan Jo Mcdonald is an American children's literature author; her most popular books is the series of works which concern a third grade girl called Judy Moody. Mcdonald has also written many picture works for younger children and continues to write. Her most recent work was the Julie Albright series of works for the American Girl Doll of the same name.
Mcdonald started life February 28, 1959, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to John and Mary Louise Mcdonald. The youngest of five girls, she was prized a B. from Oberlin College in 1981 and an M. from High school of Pittsburgh in 1985.
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Mcdonald began her career as a children's librarian, working at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Minneapolis Public Library and Adams Memorial Library in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Her first book, Is This a House for Hermit Crab?, came as a result of patrons asking her where to find a story she had told at a library.
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Mcdonald is married to Richard Haynes and lives in Sebastopol, California.
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