Sarah C. Campbell
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Sarah C. Campbell is a author and photo-illustrator. Her first book, Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator (Boyds Mills Press), was named a 2009 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book and made the Cooperative Children's Book Center's 2009 Choices List. She is currently working on her next book, Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature, for release in 2010. Her writing and photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Highlights for Children, and Highlights' High Five.
Biography
When she was in the second grade, Sarah moved to rural Mississippi from her birthplace near Chicago, but moved to rural Mississippi when she was in the second grade. She graduated from Northwestern University with undergraduate and graduate degrees in journalism, and went to Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, studying politics, philosophy, and economics.
Sarah and her husband Richard returned to Mississippi to settle in Jackson, where Sarah wrote for newspapers and later taught journalism at Millsaps College. When her third son was a year old (in 1999), Sarah began to write stories for children. Boyds Mills Press published her first book, Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator, in 2008. "Nathan's Pet Snails," a story and photographs, appeared in the January 2007 issue of Highlights. Sarah and Richard have three sons.
