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 The author of Absolutely Normal Chaos is Sharon Creech. She is a famous American author of children's fiction.  Sharon was born in South Euclid, Ohio, on July 29, 1945. She grew up in a normal home with her parents (Ann and Arvel), one sister (Sandy), and three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom).  When Sharon was young she wanted to be lots of stuff, like a painter, ice skater, singer, a teacher, a reporter, and an artist since she did have some drawing ability. She tried to be an ice skater but would always fall when she skated. When she tried to be a singer, she would be off key when she sang. She never really thought as much of being a reporter than the rest of her ideas! 

 In college she took writing courses that made her decide it was something she was good at. Sharon became a high school teacher before she had a big interest in writing novels. She was a teacher of High School English and Writing in England and Switzerland.

She married a headmaster of a school in New Jersey. They had two children. 

Sharon Creech has written over 15 books since 1990, and has focused on writing mainly about young people. She has written both novels and picture books. She is good at writing these types of books because she adds serious topics into her stories, like themes about independence, trust, childhood, adulthood, and death. They are liked by readers because she uses humour to make happier stories out of them.

She thought she wanted to write adult novels but started out with writing more about what she knew well. Her first novel was Absolutely Normal Chaos which got published in 1990. Absolutely Normal Chaos won the YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, for USA in 2001.  <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Sharon Creech has won several awards, including the Newbery Medal and Carnegie Medal. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">If you want to know what it was like growing up in Sharon's family, you can read Absolutely Normal Chaos. In her book, the main character’s brothers even have the same names as Sharon’s real life brothers. Her childhood family's house was not only with her parents and siblings, but also full of friends and visiting relatives just like in the novel. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">For summer vacations, her family usually took trips where all of the family members would pile into a car. They would head out to visit Wisconsin, Michigan or to Idaho. She must have had a noisy bunch as a family with her three younger brothers. The five-day trip out to Idaho was when Sharon was twelve and this trip had a powerful affect on her: "what a huge and amazing country!" Sharon recreates this trip in her book called Walk Two Moons.