![]() ![]() My father’s side is Jewish, my mom’s side is Eastern Orthodox Christian, but they all came from Eastern Europe to escape war, oppression, poverty or a combination thereof. Three out of four of my grandparents were immigrants. Growing up as an only child, I spent a lot of time listening to my grandmother’s stories about her childhood in Ukraine and the bar in the East Village she had run with my late grandfather, who was from Belarus. The summer before I turned five, my parents moved to my maternal grandmother’s house in Yonkers, New York, a suburb a half-hour by train to Grand Central Terminal. My parents, an artist/videographer and a stay-at-home mom, didn’t have much money but we always had books Mother Goose and the Little Bear stories with Maurice Sendak’s wonderful etchings were some of my favorites. I was born in Kingston, New York, a town on the Hudson River, on the same day as Leonardo DiCaprio (we’re Scorpios). Katherine grew up in Yonkers, New York in the home of her Ukrainian grandma who taught her to love stories and borscht. A former journalist and managing editor of The New Republic, Katherine lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two children and an astonishing array of pets. ![]() Katherine Marsh is an award-winning author of novels for middle-grade readers including The Lost Year (coming January 2023!) Nowhere Boy, winner of the Middle East Book Award The Night Tourist, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, a New York Times Notable and The Door By The Staircase, a Junior Library Guild selection. ![]()
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