![]() ![]() The Goose Girl, her critically acclaimed first book, is an ALA Teens’ Top Ten and Josette Frank Award winner. She was finally forced out of the writers’ closet when she received her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. After detours studying in Mexico, the UK, and a year and a half as an unpaid missionary in Paraguay, Shannon earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Utah. Hale continued to write secretly for years while pursuing acting in television, stage, and improv comedy. ![]() ![]() At age 10, she began to write books, mostly fantasy stories where she was the heroine. Shannon Hale was a storyteller from birth. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.įrom the Grimm’s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original, and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own. ![]() Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste. ![]()
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