Saturday, June 7, 2008

My favourite author bio, ever

From the back flap of a picture book called Hog-Eye we got from the library today:

"Susan Meddaugh, gorgeous and younger than you are, has won the Newbery, the Caldecott, a Pulitzer, and the Nobel Prize for Literature, not to mention the Miss Teen America crown. She lives in Paris when she's not in Rome, with her twenty-three children all under the age of ten. A successful lawyer, she devotes her spare time to volunteer work for world peace, the Restore Wolves to the North Woods Foundation, and Free the Pigs. When she's not writing and illustrating children's books she is writing her dissertation for her Ph.D in Primatology.

And that's the truth.

Or is it?"

PS While looking for a site about her to link to, I stumbled on one called "unjobs.org". Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that the "un-" stands for "United Nations". She strikes me as just the sort of person who'd be proud to have an unjob.

1 comments:

badmomgoodmom said...

OMG that is so funny!

I followed your link to Hog-Eye on amazon and then clicked on search inside the book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0395742765/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link
Then I clicked on back flap to read the bio in full ironic glory.