Robie Harris
Introduction '''Robie Harris''' ( '''Heilbrun'''; April 3, 1940 – January 6, 2024) was an American author, specializing in books for children.Robie Heilbrun was born in Buffalo, New York in 1940.She married William Harris and had two sons. Harris wrote several children's books about childbirth and human sexuality, including ''It's Perfectly Normal'' and ''It's so Amazing'', two of the American Library Association's most-challenged books of the 21st century. She was a cousin of children's author Elizabeth Levy. She graduated from Wheaton College and the Bank Street College of Education. She won the 2019 Mathical Book Prize for her book ''Crash! Boom! A Math Tale''. She died at a hospital in Manhattan on January 6, 2024 at the age of 83.
Further reading * Interview in ''You Can’t Say That! Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell''. Candlewick, 2021, a young adult non-fiction book about book censorship, edited by young adult author and literary critic Leonard S. Marcus. ISBN 9780763690366
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