Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Jacqueline Briggs Martin is the author of eighteen picture books for children. She is best known for Snowflake Bentley, which received a Caldecott medal in 1999. The Chiru of High Tibet, her most recent, was published in 2010.  It was named to Smithsonian Magazine’s and Kirkus Review’s “Best Book of 2010” lists and selected for the 2011 list of “Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council.

Her books have won a Golden Kite Honor Award; been selected three times for the Lupine Award, given by the Maine Library Association “to recognize an outstanding contribution to children's literature of Maine;” been named four times to the Blue Ribbon List of the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; and made the Smithsonian Magazine's List of Notable Books. In 2008 Martin received the Award for Excellence in Children's Literature from the Sterling North Society. The award is named after Sterling North, who wrote the 1964 Newberry Honor Book, Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era. Jacqueline Briggs Martin has taught creative writing at Cornell College, at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and at The Loft Literary Center. She lives in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

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