Jane Leslie Conly

Jane Leslie Conly (born 1948) is an American author, the daughter of author Robert C. O'Brien. She started her literary work by finishing the manuscript for her father's Z for Zachariah in 1974 after his death.

Her first own book, Racso and the Rats of NIMH, was published in 1986, and is a sequel to her father's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

Education Conly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1966 and from Smith College in 1971.

Personal life Conly lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her family: Peter, her husband; Eliza, her daughter; and Will, her son.

Awards 1994 Newbery Honor for Crazy Lady! 2012–2012 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Master List for Murder Afloat

Works

1986: Racso and the Rats of NIMH, illustrated by Leonard Lubin (Harper & Row) – Children's Choice IRA, 1987 1990: R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH, illus. Leonard Lubin – Children's Choice IRA, 1990 1993: Crazy Lady! – Newbery Honor Book, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 1994 1995: Trout Summer – ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 1996 1998: While No One Was Watching 1999: What Happened on Planet Kid 2002: The Rudest Alien on Earth 2005: In the Night, on Lanvale Street 2008: Impetuous R, Secret Agent, illus. Bonnie Leck 2010: Murder Afloat