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BIOGRAPHY
William Durbin is a former teacher and an author and who lives at the edge of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Wilderness. A winner of the Great Lakes Book Award and a two-time winner of the Minnesota Book award, Mr. Durbin has published eleven novels for young readers, including The Broken Blade, Wintering, Song of Sampo Lake, Blackwater Ben, The Darkest Evening, and three books in Scholastic's My Name Is America series: The Journal of Sean Sullivan, The Journal of Otto Peltonen, and The Journal of C.J. Jackson. His novel El Lector was recently optioned for film by Jane Startz Productions; and his most recent work, The Winter War, deals with Stalin's invasion of Finland in 1939.
Mr. Durbin frequently speaks at schools, libraries, and conferences throughout the country. In addition to his children's novels he has published poetry and essays for adults, and has supervised writing research projects for the NCTE, Middlebury College, and the Bingham Trust for Charity.