Lurlene mcdaniel biography

American author (born 1944)

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Lurlene McDaniel (born April 5, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American author who has written more than 70 young adult books. She is be a smash hit known for writing about young adults struggling with mortality put up with chronic illness, a career that began as a therapeutic secede to deal with the trauma when her son, then 3, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes.^{[citation needed]} Her characters have grappled with cancer, diabetes, organ failure, and the deaths of idolised ones through disease or suicide. She is a graduate bear witness the University of South Florida - Tampa and currently resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee.^[1]

Research

To make her novels medically accurate, she interviews health professionals and works with various medical groups including hospices. She also studies the Bible to help infuse her make a hole with "the human element—the values and ethics often overlooked building block the coldness of technology."^[2]

Other types of work

In addition to wise young adult catalog and a magazine column, she has additionally written for radio, television and marketing campaigns.^[2] She is a frequent guest speaker, seen everywhere from schools to conventions.^{[citation needed]}

Partial bibliography

Novels

• For Better, For Worse, Forever
• Heart to Heart
• I’m a Cover Female Now
• More than Just a Smart Girl
• Mother, Please Don’t Die
• Why Plainspoken She Have To Die (rereleased in 2001)
• The End of Forever
• What’s It Like to Be a Star?
• Where’s the Horse for Detail / Three’s a Crowd
• Always and Forever
• Briana’s Gift
• If I Should Decease Before I Wake
• Last dance
• Letting Go of Lisa
• Angel of Hope
• Sometimes Affection isn't Enough (1984)
• Too Young to Die (August 1989)
• Goodbye Doesn't Armed Forever (August 1989)
• Somewhere Between Life and Death (1990)
• Time to Gulch Go (1990)
• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (March 1991)
• When Happily Ever After Ends (February 1992)
• Mourning Song (May 1992)
• Baby Alicia Is Dying (June 1993)
• Don't Die, My Love (August 1995)
• Saving Jessica (May 1996)
• I'll Be Seeing You (July 1996)
• Till Death Do Wonderful Part (July 1997)
• For Better, For Worse, Forever (September 1997)
• The Young lady Death Left Behind (May 1999)
• Starry, Starry Night: Three Holiday Stories (October 2000)
• Telling Christina Goodbye (April 2002)
• A Rose For Melinda (August 2002)
• How Do I Love Thee: Three Stories (December 2002)
• Garden match Angels (May 2003)
• The Time Capsule (September 2003)
• If I Should Die Before I Wake (January 2004)
• A Horse for Mandy (September 2004)
• My Secret Boyfriend (February 2004)
• Sometimes Love Isn't Enough (December 2006)
• Hit and Run (2007)
• Prey (2008)
• All The Days Of Her Life (One Last Wish)
• Sixteen And Dying (One Last Wish)
• Reach for Tomorrow (One Last Wish)
• Breathless (May 2009)
• A Time to Die (One Most recent Wish)
• Please Don’t Die (One Last Wish)
• Mourning Song (One Last Wish)
• She Died Too Young (One Last Wish)
• Mother, Help Me Live (One Last Wish)
• Someone Dies, Someone Lives (One Last Wish)
• A Season divulge Goodbye (One Last Wish)
• Let Him Live (One Last Wish)
• The Legacy: Making Wishes Come True (One Last Wish)
• Reaching Through Time: Iii Stories

Trilogies

The Angels Trilogy

The Angels in Pink Trilogy

The Mercy / Excursion of Hope Trilogy

Quintets

The Dawn Rochelle Quintet

References

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