Jame Richards’s interest in history began with reluctance in childhood, when every school vacation involved a family trip in the paneled station wagon to museums, presidential tombs, and historical monuments. She bided her time until reaching the gift shop, wondering why she couldn’t go to an amusement park or the beach like everyone else. During those long car trips, she learned to write and revise stories in her head. Twenty years of creative writing (sometimes even on paper) and her knowledge of history come together in Three Rivers Rising, her first novel. Prior to publication, Three Rivers Rising won the PEN New England Children’s Book Caucus Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award, given to an unpublished work.
Jame Richards lives with her family in Connecticut.