Pam Munoz Ryan

Introduction

Pam Muñoz Ryan (born December 11, 1951) is an American author. Muñoz Ryan knew very young that she wanted a career that centered around books. She thought that meant being a teacher and then an administrator. She was finally encouraged by a professor while in graduate school and began writing. "It took me a number or years to make that leap of faith," she states when commenting on becoming a full-time writer. That came in 1994 after she published her first picture book that differed so much from the writing she had done for adults.

Biography of Pam Munoz Ryan

Pam Muñoz Ryan was born and raised in California's San Joaquin Valley. She is the oldest of three sisters and the oldest of twenty-three kin on her mother's side. She increased up with numerous of her aunts and uncles and grandparents close by and considers herself really American because her heritage backdrop is an ethnic smorgasbord. She is Spanish, Mexican, Basque, Italian, and Oklahoman.

Pam Muñoz Ryan, has in composing over twenty-five publications for juvenile individuals including the innovative, Esperanza Rising, victor of the Pura Belpre Medal, the Jane Addams Peace Award, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults, and the Americas Award Honor Book. Her innovative, Riding Freedom has garnered many accolades including the nationwide Willa Cather Award, and the California Young Reader Medal. Her likeness publications for the very juvenile and likeness publications for older readers encompass the award-winning Amelia and Eleanor Go For A Ride and When Marian Sang, the recipient of the ALA Sibert Honor and NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award. She got her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees at San Diego State University. She now lives in north San Diego County with her wed man and four children

During numerous long, warm valley summers, she expended most of her time travelling her two wheeler to the library. It became her very well liked suspend out because her family didn't have a bathing pool and the library was air-conditioned! That's how she got snared on reading and books. After school, she knew that she liked to work in a occupation that had certain thing to do with publications, and she considered that would be teaching. She became a educator, an manager and then, at the support of a ally who considered she could compose started her first book. That's when she eventually knew what she actually liked to do.

She is the author of the bestselling books Esperanza Rising and Becoming Naomi Leon. Her other novels include Riding Freedom about Charley Parkhurst, which has won numerous awards, and Paint the Wind. She has also written several picture books.

The inspiration for Esperanza came from her grandmother. An immigrant from Mexico, she faced inter-family complications, the death of her father, and the prejudice for her Hispanic heritage. Becoming Naomi Leon came from a 1997 visit to the Mexican city of Oaxaca to an annual Christmastime event called "The Night of the Radishes". Muñoz Ryan enjoys little-known facts about celebrities. She believes that ...