Today is Lauren Tarshis' birthday! She is 57 years old today. So you should definitely check out her I Survived series if you haven't yet! To celebrate her birthday, here are some facts that you may not know about her that was taken from Glogster. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico but raised in New York City, New York by both parents. Today she lives in Connecticut with her husband and four children. She has tight-knit family, who happens to live right around the corner from her, including her parents, grandmother, brother, sister in law and three nieces. Lauren is the editor of a children's literacy magazine called StoryWorks. This magazine is published by Scholastic and read by more than 400,000 kids in their 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms. Lauren is a very successful writer, but it hasn't always been easy for her. Literacy wasn't her strong area in school. In fact, she mentioned in a article that she didn't actually read a book until high school. Later in life when she was given an opportunity to work for StoryWorks, she decided to go and read all of the prominent children's books. She fell in love with these books, and it inspired her to be a writer. She never would have guessed that this would be her career, but it was meant to be. Her inspiration for the popular I Survived series comes from her fascination with disasters. Not just the disasters themselves, but the people who experienced those disasters. So, for each book she has written for the series, she does a year's worth of studying and research to understand what people were going through at that time. Other books written by her are: Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree and Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love.
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