Jane Cutler

Jane Cutler (born September 24, 1936 in New York ) is an American writer, who primarily writes novels for children.

Biography Cutler was born in 1936 in Bronx, New York, United States. At age 6, she moved to Clayton, Missouri and attended Glenridge School, where she was encouraged to write and participate in sports and drama. Cutler currently lives in San Francisco, California. Though Cutler often chooses serious topics for her writings, such as war, cultural differences, and learning disabilities; her works are described as "never out of reach of her young readers." She also does researches about subjects in her works, such as studying about red-legged frog before writing Leap, Frog,

Cutler received a Herbert Wilner Award for short fiction in 1982 and a PEN prize for short fiction in 1987. In 1996, Mr. Carey's Garden garnered her a Show Me Readers Award nomination by Missouri Association of School Librarians. Another book, Rats! was listed among Hawaii’s List of Suggested Titles for the 1998 Nene Award.

The next year, Cutler published Spaceman, which received nominations for a 2000 William Allen White Children's Book Award. Her 1999 children book The Cello of Mr. O was one of her most successful works, receiving a Patterson Prize for Books for Young People, a Zena Sutherland Award for Children's Literature, a New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award, and a Golden Kite Award nomination. This book was adapted into a musical in Japan.