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=__**The Sign Of The Chrysanthemum**__=

__Author__
The author of //__The Sign of the Chrysanthemum__// is Katherine Paterson. She was born in 1932 in China to missionary parents. Her recent jobs include a teacher and a missionary in Japan and her husband is currently a Presbyterian minister. They have four children and seven grandchildren. Katherine has written more than 30 books for children, including 14 novels for young people. Some of her books include __//Bridge to Terabithia//__, __//The Master Puppeteer//__ and __//The Great Gilly Hopkins//__. She has also won many awards including the National Book Award, in 1977 and 1979, the 1978,1979, and 1981 Newbery Medals, the Honors List of the International Board of Books for Young People in 1994, the 1997 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She has co-authored with her husband, John. Katherine Paterson lives in Vermont, which is also the setting for the last few chapters of //Long Road Home.//