Sharon Lovejoy is the award-winning, bestselling author and illustrator of nonfiction books about nature and gardening for children and adults. Running Out of Night is her debut novel. It draws on her ancestral roots in Virginia and her lifelong interest in nature, herbs, ethnobotany, and early American arts and crafts.
Her other books include the children’s gardening classics Sunflower Houses and Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots, which have introduced hundreds of thousands of children to nature. She is the winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Children’s Literature for The Little Green Island with a Little Red House. Her writing has appeared in Ranger Rick magazine, in The New Book of Knowledge encyclopedia, and in educational testing materials in English and Spanish.
Sharon lives on California’s Central Coast and on a little green island in Maine. She is a frequent speaker at schools and for organizations across the country. Learn more about her at sharonlovejoy.com.