![]() Among her many honors are the Pen Center West Award in Children's Literature, the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and illustrators. Peg Kehret's books for young people have earned a wide readership and critical acclaim. Some of Kehret's most famous works include Stolen Children, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, and Runaway Twin. She has published forty-six works for middle school students, including four children's drama books. Career īefore Kehret began writing children's books, she wrote plays, radio commercials and magazine stories. She has a great-grandson, Seth, who also lives in Washington. Kehret has four grandchildren: Brett, Chelsea, Eric, and Mark. In 1970, the Kehrets moved to Washington. In 1955, she married Carl Kehret they moved to California and adopted two children, Bob and Anne. Kehret made a complete recovery, later graduating from Austin High School and then attending the University of Minnesota for one year. ![]() The experience changed Kehret's life, as she describes in her 1996 memoir Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio. ![]() She was paralyzed from the neck down and had a nine-month hospital stay. She had each of the three types of polio: spinal, respiratory, and the least common kind, bulbar. Margaret Ann Schulze was born on November 11, 1936, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. ![]() Peg Kehret (born Margaret Ann Schulze on November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 10 and 15. ![]()
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