Sharon Dennis Wyeth
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Creative Writing Professor
Hunter College (MFA)
Non-fiction, Poetry
Sharon Dennis Wyeth | |
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| Occupation | Children's Author Creative Writing Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Hunter College (MFA) |
| Genre | Children's Fiction and Non-fiction, Poetry |
| Notable works | Evette: The River and Me Orphea Proud Something Beautiful Always My Dad |
| Website | |
| sharondenniswyeth | |
Sharon Dennis Wyeth is an American poet[1] and author of numerous children's books.[2] She is best known for Evette: The River and Me, which tells the story of a young girl, Evette, who is inspired to clean up the polluted tributary her grandmother once swam in. Wyeth's fiction was the basis for the first biracial American Girl doll, part of its World By Us collection.[3] Evette: The River and Me was derived from Wyeth's childhood in Washington, D.C., where she grew up swimming in the Anacostia River, in part, because Black Washingtonians were harassed when they attempted to access desegregated community pools.[2]
Wyeth was raised in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Anacostia High School in 1966.[2] She then attended Harvard University,[2] earning her B.A. in a combined discipline of sociology, psychology and anthropology.[4] Later, Wyeth worked as a family counselor in New York City.[5] It was there that she started a theater company and began writing romance novels before focusing on books for young readers.[5]
