Joan nixon author biography

Joan Lowery Nixon (February 3, 1927 – June 28, 2003) was an American journalist and author, specializing in historical fiction and mysteries for children.
Joan Lowery Nixon was an American journalist and author, specializing in historical fiction and mysteries for children and young adults.
Joan Lowery Nixon, author, was born on February 3, 1927, in Los Angeles, California, to Margaret (Meyer) and Joseph Lowery, an accountant.

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Nixon, Joan Lowery 1927-2003

(Jaye Ellen)

PERSONAL: Born February 3, 1927, in Los Angeles, CA; died of cancer, June 28, 2003, in Houston, TX; daughter of Joseph Michael (an accountant) and Margaret (Meyer) Lowery; married Hershell H. Nixon (a petroleum geologist), August 6, 1949; children: Kathleen Nixon Brush, Maureen Nixon Quinlan, Joseph Michael, Eileen Nixon McGowan. Education: University of Southern California, B.A., 1947; California State College, certificate in elementary education, 1949. Religion: Roman Catholic.

CAREER: Writer. Elementary school teacher in Los Angeles, CA, 1947-50; Midland College, Midland, TX, instructor in creative writing, 1971-73; University of Houston, Houston, TX, instructor in creative writing, 1974-77; taught creative writing in two parochial schools in Texas.

AWARDS, HONORS: Steck-Vaughn Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 1975, for The Alligator under the Bed;Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee, Mystery Writers of America, 1975, for The Mysterious Red Tape Gang, and 1985, for The Ghosts of Now; Outstanding Science Trade Book for

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I have been writing since before I could read. My mother told me that at the age of two, I would come to her and say, "Write this down. I have a poem." While I was growing up, I wanted to write the kinds of books I loved to read: stories that made me laugh or cry, and mysteries � especially mysteries. When I was grown and became a published author of books for young people, my dream came true. Writing fiction is my idea of the most wonderful job in the world, and I love it.

I was first published when I was ten. A poem I wrote appeared in a children's magazine. I sold my first article to a magazine when I was seventeen. I majored in journalism at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, but there were few jobs at the time for journalists, so I took a temporary job teaching kindergarten and first grade in the Los Angeles city schools. I enjoyed teaching so much I went to night school and took the courses I'd need for my credentials.

My husband and I have four children, and when they were young I had only one day a week in which someone could watch the

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Joan Lowery Nixon

The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore

3.55 avg rating — 2,672 ratings — published 1979 — 22 editions

The Other Side of Dark

3.74 avg rating — 2,427 ratings — published 1986 — 26 editions

A Family Apart (Orphan Train Adventures, #1)

4.07 avg rating — 2,143 ratings — published 1987 — 24 editions

A Deadly Game of Magic

3.82 avg rating — 1,527 ratings — published 1985 — 15 editions

The Séance

3.59 avg rating — 1,542 ratings — published 1980 — 22 editions

The Name of the Game Was Murder

3.84 avg rating — 1,278 ratings — published 1993 — 17 editions

Whispers from the Dead

3.85 avg rating — 1,197 ratings — published 1989 — 19 editions

The House on Hackman's Hill

3.96 avg rating — 1,127 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions

The Haunting (Laurel-Leaf Books)

3.67 avg rating — 1,159 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions

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