Meet Children's Author: Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville, award-winning author of many books for young readers including My Teacher is an Alien, I was a Sixth Grade Alien, and The Unicorn Chronicles, will speak at the Abingdon Branch of HCPL on Wednesday, April 2nd at 6:30 pm. Coville will talk about the creation of a book from the beginning of the idea until the time of the manuscript is sold to a publisher.

Coville knew he wanted to be a writer since he was a child. He started to write for children when he was 18 years old and sold his first book at age 27. His books generally fall into the fantasy and science fiction genres, full of personable and humorous characters. His books stress values like saving the environment and fair treatment of others.

Bruce Coville lives in Syracuse, New York with his illlustrator/wife, Kathy Dietz. The couple has three children.