Kristin Cashore grew up in the northeast Pennsylvania countryside as the second of four sisters. She received a bachelor's degree from Williams College and a master's from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College, and she has worked as a dog runner, a packer in a candy factory, an editorial assistant, a legal assistant, and a freelance writer. She has lived in many places (including Sydney, New York City, Boston, London, and Austin), and she currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida, where her daily activities include walking along the St. Johns River and counting pelicans on the dock.
Kristin Cashore's debut novel, Graceling, grew from her daydreams about a girl who possesses extraordinary powers – and who forms a friendship with a boy with whom she is insurmountably incompatible.
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