Clare B. Dunkle (born June 11, 1964) is an American children's fantasy author and librarian.

Biography

Dunkle was born Clare Buckalew in Fort Worth, Texas. She earned a B.A. in Russian with a minor in Latin from Trinity University in San Antonio and worked in Trinity University's library after earning her Master of Library Science from Indiana University Bloomington. For seven years, she and her family lived in the Rheinland Pfalz region of Germany not far from the Roman city of Trier. Her daughters (Elena and Valerie) attended a boarding school there and read her first four books as a series of letters from home.^[1]

Works

The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy

• The Hollow Kingdom (2003)
• Close Kin (2004)
• In the Coils of the Snake (2005)

The Sky Inside Series

• The Sky Inside (2008) - "In a world well-stocked with genius children, the point-of-view focus through an ordinary boy with questionable free will provides a compelling shift from the expected."^[2]
• The Walls Have Eyes (2009) - "After an overly expository start, this simple tale provides comforting, enjoyable adventure."^[3]

Other Works

• By These Ten Bones (2005)
• The House of Dead Maids (2010)
• Elena Vanishing (2015)
• Hope and Other Luxuries: A Mother's Life with a Daughter's Anorexia (2015)

Co-author

Dunkle co-wrote Elena Vanishing (2015) with her daughter, Elena Dunkle. The memoir is a true account of Elena's struggle with anorexia nervosa, a disorder that took over her life from the age of 17 all the way past college and into adulthood.

Awards

• The Hollow Kingdom 2004 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature^[4]