Sam Swope

Sam Swope is an author and the 2006 Thurber House children's writer in residence.

Works by Swope include ''I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories'', a memoir recounting three years Swope spent teaching writing students at a Queens, New York, public school.

''I Am a Pencil'' won a 2005 Christopher Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, The Bechtel Prize, and was "named one of the best books of 2004 by ''Publishers Weekly''."

Swope has reviewed books for the ''New York Times''. Provided by Wikipedia