Liza Ketchum
Biography
Liza Ketchum
Liza Ketchum grew up in a family that placed a high value on the arts, particularly storytelling, music, and dance. Her father, also a writer, loved to tell about Liza's great-grandmother, a singer and pianist who caused a scandal when she eloped with a musician at the height of vaudeville's popularity. That story, along with the vaudeville songs that her grandfather used to sing, inspired Liza to write THE LIFE FANTASTIC. She is the author of sixteen published books of fiction and nonfiction for young readers, including the recently published Out of Left Field, set in contemporary Boston with echoes to the Vietnam War era. Her middle grade novel, WHERE THE GREAT HAWK FLIES, won the Massachusetts Book Award for Young Adults. Liza and her husband divide their time between the Boston area and southern Vermont.
Liza Ketchum
