Jennifer Donnelly (born 1963 in Port Chester, New York) is a historical fiction author best-known for her novel A Northern Light (published in the UK as A Gathering Light). She has also written The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children.
Donnelly's grandparents had fled from Dublin, Ireland to the Adirondack region of New York, and her grandmother had worked at a hotel on Big Moose Lake -- later the setti...
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Jennifer Donnelly (born 1963 in Port Chester, New York) is a historical fiction author best-known for her novel A Northern Light (published in the UK as A Gathering Light). She has also written The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children.
Donnelly's grandparents had fled from Dublin, Ireland to the Adirondack region of New York, and her grandmother had worked at a hotel on Big Moose Lake -- later the setting of Donnelly's A Northern Light. Donnelly's own childhood was spent both in Rye (in Westchester County, downstate) and Port Leyden (in Lewis County, upstate).
Donnelly attended the University of Rochester, majoring in English Literature and European History and graduating Cum laude with distinction in English Literature. She later attended Birkbeck College in London, England.
Donnelly moved back to New York, to Brooklyn, at the age of 25. After ten years of work, during which she claims to have been rejected by every publishing house in New...
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