Ed Sullivan is a librarian and adjunct professor with the UT School of Information Sciences. His specialty is literature for children and young adults. An active member of the American Library Association, Ed served on the task force that created the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature in 2000. He serves on the board of directors of the Center for Children's and Young Adult Literature located at UT's Hodges Library, on the Tennessee Department of Education Reading and Literacy Advisory Council, and on the editorial advisory boards of several professional journals. Ed has published over one hundred articles, author interviews, bibliographies, and reviews in such journals as The ALAN Review, Book Links, Booklist, The Book Report, English Journal, School Library Journal, and Voices of Youth Advocates. His first book, The Holocaust in Literature for Youth: A Guide and Resource Book, was published by Scarecrow Press in 1999. His second book for Scarecrow, Reaching Reluctant Young Adult Readers: A Handbook for Librarians and Teachers was published this summer (2002). The book discusses resources and strategies educators and parents can use to combat adolescent aliteracy. Ed is now working on a third book for Scarecrow about Appalachian literature for children and youth. He is also author of two books for young people. Holiday House has offered a contract for Gadgets, Secrets, and Spies: The Story of the Manhattan Project. An autobiographical novel, The First Day of the Rest of My Life, is presently being considered for publication by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Putnam. Ed is working on several other fiction and nonfiction projects and hopes human cloning will soon be available so he can complete them. Ed lives in Oak Ridge with wife Judy and three dysfunctional cats. When not reading, writing, or working at his day job, Ed indulges his addiction to TV cop shows. |
