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Clare Vanderpool (born 1965) is an American children's book author living in Wichita, Kansas.

She attended Blessed Sacrament elementary school, and later graduated from Newman University in 1987. Clare decided she wanted to be a writer in the fifth grade, and realized her childhood dream at the age of 45 when her first book was published. She is married and lives with her husband in the College Hill neighborhood of Wichita, Kansas with their four children.
Her maternal grandparents lived in Frontenac, Kansas, which provides the backdrop for the fictional town of Manifest in her first novel.

Moon Over Manifest (2010)
Navigating Early (2013)

Clare is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Clare about her life:

If you ask anyone who knows me, they will tell you that I have a very strong connection to place. I live in Wichita, Kansas, about four blocks from where I grew up, in an old neighborhood called College Hill. From my house I can walk to my parents' house, my sister's house, the school I went to and where my kids go now, the pool, the sledding hill, and two bookstores!
I grew up reading many wonderful books in a lot of strange places. Books like Harold and the Purple Crayon, Anne of Green Gables, and Island of the Blue Dolphins in places like dressing rooms, the bathroom, and church.…

Her first book, Moon Over Manifest, won the 2011 Newbery Medal, becoming the first debut author to achieve the feat in thirty years. She is also the first Kansas native to win the Newbery Medal.

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