Sharon CreechA biography of children's book author Sharon Creech is presented. Creech was born on July 29, 1945 in South Euclid, Ohio and attended Hiram College where she earned a bachelor's degree. She also earned a master's in English from George Mason University in Virginia. Creech started writing in 1986 and won the Billie Murray Denny Poetry Award for her poem "Cleansing" in 1987. She married Lyle Rigg, a boarding school headmaster.