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Martine Leavitt is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a writing teacher. ==Biography== Leavitt was born in 1953 in Alberta, Canada. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, first class honours, from the University of Calgary and a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College.〔 She has seven children and fifteen grandchildren and lives with her husband in Alberta, Canada.〔 Leavitt writes contemporary realism and fantasy novels, and short stories for young adults. Her books have been translated into German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, and Korean. ''Keturah and Lord Death'' was a finalist for the National Book Award. Leavitt currently teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Leavitt's first four books were published by Red Deer College Press of Red Deer, Alberta. She wrote her first three as Martine Bates and the fourth, ''The Dollmage'' (2001), was published as by Martine Bates Leavitt. During January 2002 she informed the U.S. Library of Congress that she had remarried, to Greg Leavitt, and would no longer use the name Bates.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martine Leavitt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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