Hold Fast breaks new ground in ways that will startle. Each combines real settings with an unlikely array of real-world ingredients. Grunsfeld (S.M., '84, Ph.D., '88) to send her pupils' literature and creative artwork into space during a routine Hubble Space Telescope mission on the Columbia space shuttle.Download Blue Balliett's full-color biography (PDF)īlue Balliett's first four mysteries- Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game, and The Danger Box-have been The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today and IndieBound bestsellers. During her tenure, she coordinated with NASA astronaut and University of Chicago alumnus John M. īefore releasing Chasing Vermeer, she taught third grade at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Balliett has also published two oral histories involving Nantucket ghost stories in the 1980s, which have been consolidated into one book, 'Nantucket Ghosts' released by Down East Books in 2006. Out of the Wild Night was published in 2018. Soon after, in 2015, Balliett published Pieces and Players. Her next book, Hold Fast was published in 2013. The Danger Box was published in August 2010. Ī sequel, The Wright 3, was released in April, 2006, and a third, The Calder Game, was published two years later, in April 2008. In addition, she was awarded the Agatha Award in 2004 in the category Best Children's or Young Adult. The book was a bestseller and won a number of accolades and awards, including the 2005 Edgar Award in the Best Juvenile category. Illustrated by Brett Helquist, it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Jan Vermeer.

Ĭhasing Vermeer, released by Scholastic Press in 2004, is her best-known and most highly praised book. She was born Elizabeth Balliett, but her family started calling her Blue shortly after her birth. She is best known for her award-winning novel for children, Chasing Vermeer. Blue Balliett (born 1955 in New York) is an American author, who lives with her husband, three children, a grandson, and a cat.

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