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Tui�s BIO

Most frequently asked question:� Tui?� What kind of name is that?� Is it short for something?

Nope.� Among the many great things to come out of New Zealand (the Lord of the Rings movies, cats that paint, my mom) is a bird called the tui�not as well known as the kiwi, but a heck of a lot noisier!

I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and lived in Asuncion, Paraguay; Miami, Florida; and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, before moving to New Jersey in high school, where I started doing theatre�mostly backstage work, because (a) it was fun, and (b) you got to hang out in the dark with cute boys.

(Er, I mean . . . because it was artistically fulfilling, yes.) :)

my portrait

I graduated from Williams College in 1998) (yay Ephs!) and I currently live in New York with my fantabulous sister Kari and my adorable yoodle Sunshine (what�s a yoodle? A puppy that�s three-quarters Yorkshire terrier and one-quarter poodle, of course!).


[ Sunshine in need of a haircut ]

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Much to my parents� relief, I abandoned my theatrical aspirations after college for the far more stable and lucrative career of fiction writing.

My first two official books were beginning readers, part of Grosset & Dunlap�s �First Friends� series. MEET MO AND ELLA and FUN WITH MO AND ELLA are about a mouse and an elephant who are friends despite their size differences (awwww).

I also wrote a biography of the magician Harry Houdini, part of Grosset�s biography series, entitled WHO WAS HARRY HOUDINI?

And if you look me up on Amazon, you�ll find my name attached to all kinds of wacky projects, only some of which can I actually take any credit for:

KERMIT�S MIXED-UP VALENTINES (co-written with lovely Emily Sollinger)

GLITTERING GALAXIES: A TRIP THROUGH THE STARS (comes with glitter tattoos!)

MONSTER PARTY (also with glitter tattoos!)

And ok, yes, HIDE AND GO PEEP might have been me, too. :)

Now I�m writing novels for teenagers, which is very exciting because, well, those are the books I like to read anyway.� The first is THIS MUST BE LOVE, based on Shakespeare�s play A Midsummer Night�s Dream.� My second, currently tentatively titled OTHER, will be published by HarperCollins in 2006.

I love mail, so if you�d like, you can write to me via HarperCollins:

Tui Sutherland

HarperCollins Children�s Books � Author Mail

1350 Ave of the Americas

New York, NY� 10019

I can�t guarantee I�ll write back right away, but I will try!

And thanks for checking out the website! :) Make sure you don�t miss the Oh-So-Accurate Personality Quiz:

Which Shakesperean Heroine Are You?



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