![]() ![]() She followed that degree with a Master of Arts in English from Marshall University and a Master of Library Science from Kent State. It is this loss that she describes in But I'll Be Back Again as propelling her to a writing career.Īfter high school and with no real career plans, Rylant attended Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston), graduating in 1975. When he contacted her after years of silence, Rylant hoped for a reunion, but her father succumbed to the combined effects of alcoholism and hepatitis before such a reunion could occur. Young Cynthia had little contact with her father after her parents' divorce, though he wrote occasionally for a while after they moved to West Virginia. Later she and her mother moved to Beaver, a small town in southern West Virginia. The young Rylant lived with her gr andparents for the next four years it is this time and place that she remembers in her first book When I Was Young In the Mountains, a picture book describing the joys of her Appalachian childhood, which earned Rylant the American Book Award in 1982, and illustrator Diane Goode a Caldecott Honor Award. ![]() ![]() Her parents' unhappy marriage ended when she was four, and Rylant went to live with her grandparents in Cool Ridge, WV, while her mother attended nursing school. Cynthia Rylant was born in Hopewell, Va., in June 1954. ![]()
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