The couple would eventually welcome three children. Giff has said she “fell into teaching” when her college dean suggested it might be a “good place for me.” She began teaching in the New York City public school system and also continued her studies at St. “And I always wanted to write.”įollowing high school, she enrolled at Marymount College where she initially majored in English and then changed to history before receiving her B.A. “After school, I’d sit in the kitchen, leaning against the warm radiator, dreaming over a story,” she recalled. “I spent most of my childhood with a book in my hands,” she told Something About the Author in 1983. As a child she was surrounded by stories, some told by her relatives or read to her by her father, as well as the ones she read on her own. Patricia Reilly Giff was born Apin Brooklyn, N.Y., to William J. Prolific children’s book author Patricia Reilly Giff, widely known for her Newbery Honor-winning novels Lily’s Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods, as well as humorous series including the Kids of the Polk Street School, died on June 22 at her home in Fairfield, Conn., following a long illness.
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