Pete Hautman

Peter Murray Hautman (born September 29, 1952) is an American author best known for his novels for young adults. One of them, Godless, won the 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The National Book Foundation summary is, "A teenage boy decides to invent a new religion with a new god."

Biography

Hautman was born in Berkeley, California and moved to St. Louis Park, Minnesota at the age of five. He graduated from St. Louis Park High School and attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota during the next seven years without receiving a degree from either institution. After working at several jobs for which he calls himself "ill-suited", Hautman's first novel, Drawing Dead, was published in 1993.[1]

Awards and honors

Books

References

  1. ^ Hautman, Pete. "Bio".
  2. ^ "2004 National Book Award Winner: Young People's Literature". NBF. Retrieved 2013-11-22.
  3. ^ "National Book Awards – 2004". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-01-26.

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