Sarah’s Bio

Sarah Albee is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 150 books for kids, ranging from preschool through middle grade. Recent nonfiction titles have been Junior Library Guild, Bank Street College of Education Best Books, and Notable Social Studies Trade Books selections, as well as winners of Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Awards. She especially loves writing about topics where history and science connect. 

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Sarah worked at Children’s Television Workshop (producers of Sesame Street) for nine years. She played basketball in college, and then a year of semi-professional women’s basketball in Cairo, Egypt.

She lives in New York City with her husband, who is a high school administrator. They have three grown kids. 

 

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For Kids: 12 Fun Facts About Sarah

  1. She’s the youngest of four kids.
  2. Her favorite food is a perfectly ripe mango.
  3. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up in South Burlington, Vermont.
  4. She was the second-shortest girl in seventh grade, but then grew nine inches in a year and a half, topping out at 5’10.”
  5. She was captain of both her basketball and track teams in high school—they were state champs.
  6. She played the violin all the way through college. She also loves opera.
  7. When she was growing up, her family had lots of dogs and cats, and also chickens, cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and an ornery watch-turkey named Simon who used to chase visitors up the front walkway. Some of these visitors included boys who were there to pick up her older sister for a date. Awkward.
  8. She graduated from Harvard, and was a member of the humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon.
  9. After college, she lived in Cairo, Egypt for a year, where she played semi-pro basketball and worked as an editor.
  10. She speaks varying amounts of Italian, French, and Arabic. (She knows enough Arabic to argue with the ref maturely express her views about controversial calls.)
  11. Her first big job was at Sesame Street. She worked there for nine years.
  12. Her favorite books to read are anything about the history of everyday life, especially the lives of kids and ordinary people from the past.