Peeled by Joan Bauer6/22/2023 ![]() Her subsequent novels earned many more awards, including a prestigious Newberry Honor for Hope Was Here. This story became Squashed, a novel that won the Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel.Īfter trying out many different careers, Joan Bauer finally found her calling as a young adult novelist. Forced to give up the daily demands of screenwriting while recovering from surgery, Bauer began writing a story about a girl in a pumpkin-growing competition. But just as Joan Bauer was trying out her newest career, she was seriously injured in a car accident. Then she decided to become a screenwriter. For a while, she wrote articles for magazines and newspapers. At the age of 30, she married a computer engineer named Evan Bauer, who encouraged her to pursue her passion for writing. In her early twenties Joan began a career in sales and advertising in Chicago. She credits her early jobs and love for books as positive influences that helped keep her on the right track. As a teen, Joan was a self-described “rebel” who was trying to find her place in the world without a father figure. When Joan was eight, her parents got divorced and her father, who was an alcoholic, dropped out of her life. ![]() Joan’s mother was a high school English teacher and her grandmother, who lived at home, was a professional storyteller. The eldest of three sisters, Joan grew up writing stories, poems, and entries in her diary. Joan Bauer was born in 1951 in River Forest, Illinois. ![]()
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