One day while giving one of her lessons about living on’s dreams a student dared ask her if she was living hers. As such, teaching was a way to make herself comfortable with speaking up. She has said that she was interested in becoming a teacher since she wanted to get rid of her shyness. Over the years, she has won several awards including the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the CLiPPA Poetry Award, the CBI Book of the Year award, and the Young Adult Book Prize.Īfter she graduated from college, Sarah Crossan went on to teach English for a decade. She would later graduate with a degree in Literature and Philosophy and went to the University of Cambridge, where she trained as a drama and English teacher.Ĭrossan published her debut novel “The Weight of Water,” which went on to become an award-winning novel. While she was born in London when her parents were on vacation, she spend most of her childhood in New York, London, and Dublin. She grew up a quiet child amid the rough and tumble and the noise and soccer of her brothers. She was born to a stay-at-home mother and an architect father and was the only girl among four siblings. She grew up in a family that believed in hard work and appreciated the arts even though they were never seen as a necessity. Growing up, Crossan always knew that she wanted to write thought the never thought of pursuing it as a career as an adult. Sarah Crossan is a young adult romance, young adult fiction, and general fiction romance.
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