Julie Reece Deaver
Julie Reece Deaver’s Say Goodnight, Gracie won the Virginia State Reading Association Award for the 1990-1991 school year. Other awards that Deaver has won for her writing are as follows. They are also listed on the Barnes and Noble website:
1988 Best Books for
Young Adults
1989 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
1988 Young Adult Editors' Choices
Young Adult Choices for 1990
Children's Books of 1988
1988 Books for the Teen Age
In Say Goodnight, Gracie, a young woman must learn to cope with
the death of her best friend. The book’s publisher states that the novel is a
“…wrenching first novel that combines a teenager’s emotional trauma with a
love story in the best modern tradition”
(www.barnesandnoble.com).
Deaver was raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and currently lives in Pacific
Grove, California. She has worked as a special education teacher’s aide as
well as creating egg tempera paintings. Some of her illustrations have been
published in The New Yorker, the Chicago Tribune, and Reader’s Digest. Her
husband, Jeffery Deaver, is also a writer. Currently Deaver is illustrating his
mystery novel (http://members.aol.com/jdeaver886/jrd.html).
The following is a list of some other works by Deaver:
Say
Goodnight, Gracie
First Wedding,
Once Removed; and
You Bet Your Life. Ms. Deaver lives in Pacific Grove, California.
The Night I
Disappeared
For more information on Julie Reece Deaver
and her books, visit:
http://members.aol.com/jdeaver886/jrd.html