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Peg Kehret (born Margaret Ann Schulze on November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 10 and 15. After beating three types of polio at age 12, Kehret went on to become an author of children's, young adults', and adults' literature, winning over fifty awards throughout her career.

Life

Margaret Ann Schulze was born on November 11, 1936, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She contracted polio at age 12 in 1949. She had each of the three types of polio: spinal, respiratory, and bulbar. She was paralyzed from the neck down and had a nine-month hospital stay. The experience changed Kehret's life, as she describes in her 1996 memoir Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio. Kehret made a complete recovery aside from lingering post-polio syndrome. She later graduated from Austin High School and then attended the University of Minnesota for one year. In 1955, she married Carl Kehret; they moved to California and adopted two children, Bob and Anne.

In 1970, the Kehrets moved to Washington. Carl died in 2004. Kehret has four g

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Booklist, September 15, 1989, p. 184; February 15, 1990, p. 1166; May 15, 1992, p. 1672; September 1, 1992, pp. 56, 60; September 1, 1994, p. 41; December 1, 1994, p. 664; May 1, 1995, p. 1573; October 1, 1995, p. 314; January 1, 1996, p. 834; November 1, 1996, pp. 492-93; August, 1997, p. 1901; August, 1998, p. 2005.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, February, 1995, pp. 202-203; March, 1996, p. 231; November, 1996, pp. 100-101; November, 1997, pp. 88-89.

Horn Book, spring, 1995, p. 78.

Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 1987, p. 373; August 15, 1994, p. 1131; June 1, 1997, p. 874; April 1, 1999, p. 535; March 15, 2002, review of The Stranger Next Door, p. 415; September 15, 2002, review of Five Pages a Day: A Writer's Journey, p. 1393; February 1, 2003, review of Spy Cat, p. 233.

Kliatt, July, 1993, p. 10; March, 1997, p. 40.

School Library Journal, October, 1989, p. 120; March, 1990, pp. 218-219; June, 1991, p. 126; August, 1992, p. 182; September, 1994, p. 218; May, 1995, p. 108; December, 1995, p. 104; February, 1996, p.

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Peg Kehret has always loved to write. As a child, she wanted to be either a writer or a veterinarian; now she includes animals in most of her books. She grew up in Austin, Minnesota, and had a happy and normal childhood except for a bout with polio which paralyzed her from the neck down and hospitalized her for nine months. However, she made nearly a complete recovery. She graduated from Austin High School and attended the University of Minnesota for one year.

She married Carl Kehret in 1955, and moved to California two years later. They adopted two children, Bob and Anne. As a young mother, Peg completed one more year of college. In 1970, Peg and Carl moved to Washington State where she still lives.

Before Peg began writing books for children, she wrote radio commercials, plays, and magazine stories. She also published two nonfiction adult books. Her first book for kids (Winning Monologs for Young Actors) was published in 1985. Since then she has published many popular books for young people.

Peg Kehret has won dozens of state Young Reader awards as well as the PEN Center Awar