Nancy Churnin is an award-winning children’s book author who writes about people who have made the world a better place and who inspire children to be heroes and heroines too.
Nancy won a 2021 National Jewish Book Award, a 2022 Sydney Taylor Honor Book award, and a 2022 National Communications Contest award from the National Federation of Press Women for Dear Mr. Dickens, a true story that inspired the creation of an educational program at the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She has also won two Sydney Taylor Notable Book awards, for her works Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing (2018) and A Queen to the Rescue: The Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah (2021).
Born and raised in New York City, Nancy lives in North Texas, where she enjoyed being a theater critic for the Dallas Morning News before becoming a fulltime author. Her books come with free teacher guides, resources, and projects she hopes you’ll try on her website, nancychurnin.com.
