![]() ![]() ![]() She also won the 2013 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction with her short story "What World Is This?" and the work became the title for the independent publisher's 2013 collection of short stories. Whelan won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000 for the novel Homeless Bird. Whelan is, according to Liz Rosenberg in the Chicago Tribune, "an accomplished, graceful, and intelligent writer." Her stories have appeared in several anthologies and in Prize Stories: the O. In high school I edited the school paper. When I got to elementary school I began writing poetry. I would tell a story to my baby sitter and she would type it out. Her collection of short stories, Playing with Shadows, was published by the Illinois Press. Welcome to Something About The Author How I Started Writing I began making up stories before I could write. ![]() Whelan is also the author of short stories which have appeared in The Ontario Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review, and other literary quarterlies. Whelan's books include many historical fiction novels, including a trilogy set on Mackinac Island and a quartet series set in communist Russia. She studied at the University of Michigan. ![]()
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