Gail Carson Levine ne adam wata
Gail Carson Levine (an haife shi Satumba 17,1947) marubucin Ba'amurke ne na littattafan manya.Littafinta na biyu,Ella Enchanted,ta sami lambar yabo ta Newbery a 1998.

Rayuwar farko 
Levine ta girma a cikin New York City,New York.  Ta yaba wa iyayenta David da Sylvia saboda ƙwaƙƙwaran ƙirƙira.Mahaifinta,wanda yarinta a cikin mafakar marayu na Ibrananci na New York ya ba da wahayi ga labarinta Dave a Dare,ya mallaki gidan wasan kwaikwayo na kasuwanci,kuma mahaifiyarta malami ce wacce ta rubuta wasan kwaikwayo don ɗalibanta su yi.Yayanta,Rani, wadda ta kai shekara biyar,ta zama mai zane.

Lokacin yaro,Levine ya karanta sosai;Littafin da ta fi so shine James M. Barrie's Peter Pan,kuma ta kuma ji daɗin ayyukan Louisa May Alcott da LM Montgomery. Da farko ta yi burin zama ’yar wasan kwaikwayo kuma mai zane-zane,kuma ta shiga cikin rukunin wasan kwaikwayo kafin ta rasa sha'awar wasan kwaikwayo.

A 1967,ta auri David Levine.Ta yi digiri a fannin falsafa a Kwalejin Birnin New York, inda ta sami BA a 1969.  Ta shafe shekaru 27 masu zuwa tana aiki da gwamnatin jihar New York,musamman a matsayin mai kula da jin dadin jama'a, tana taimaka wa mutane samun ayyukan yi. Hakanan tana da Airedale Terrier mai suna Reggie.

Sana'ar rubutu 

Bayan da ta ɗauki aji a rubuce-rubuce da kwatanta wa yar,Levine ta gano cewa tana jin daɗin rubutu fiye da kwatanta. Don haka a cikin 1987,ta fara rubutawa,amma a cikin shekaru tara masu zuwa,an ƙi duk rubuce-rubucenta. A wannan lokacin ta dauki karatun rubuce-rubuce kuma ta shiga kungiyoyin marubuta.Da take bimbini a kan abubuwan da ta faru,Levine ta ce “waɗannan shekarun sun kasance cikin farin ciki na.Ina koyan rubutu." 

Littafinta na farko da aka buga shine Ella Enchanted,wanda HarperTrophy ya karɓa don bugawa.Levine ta tuna,"Wannan ranar,17 ga Afrilu,1996,ita ce ɗaya daga cikin mafi farin ciki a rayuwata." An buga littafin a cikin 1997,kuma a cikin 1998,ya sami karramawa na Sabuwar Bery .  Daga baya zai zama wahayi ga fim ɗin 2004 mai suna iri ɗaya.Nasarar Ella Enchanted ya sa Levine ya yi ritaya daga aikin gwamnati kuma ya ci gaba da rubuta cikakken lokaci. 

Littafin labari na gaba na Levine, Dave at Night, ya sami wahayi ne ta hanyar sha'awarta game da abubuwan da mahaifinta ya fuskanta a rayuwa a cikin gidan marayu. Levine ta ce, “Na yi nawa tsarin yarinta na mahaifina. Gabaɗaya almara ce, amma ina tsammanin halin Dave ya ɗan yi kama da mahaifina. Kuma ina ganin cewa abota, da tsananin cudanya, a tsakanin samarin, dole ne ya kasance kusa da abin da ya faru.”  Ga littafinta mai zuwa, The Wish, littafi game da shahara a makarantar sakandare, Levine, wanda ya tsallake digiri na takwas, dole ne ya yi bincike: "Na yi kwana ɗaya ina bin aji na takwas a kusa, kuma na yi tambayoyi da yawa. Na kuma yi hira da yara da yawa game da abubuwan sha'awa, azuzuwan su, ra'ayoyinsu kan shahara da rayuwa" 

Levine, bayan nasarar da ta samu na daidaitawar labarin Cinderella a cikin Ella Enchanted, ta ci gaba da ba da labarun tatsuniyoyi tare da karkatar da abin da zai zama jerin labaran Gimbiya . A cewar Levine, "Bayan an buga Ella Enchanted, na gabatar da wasu tsoffin littattafan hoto na da aka ƙi ga edita na. Ta na son daya, wanda a lokacin ake kira Talk Is Cheap? Sai dai ta yi tunanin ya kamata ya zama ɗan gajeren novel, maimakon littafin hoto, sai ta ce in sake yin uku. Littafin hoton ya juya zuwa Kuskuren Fairy, kuma ta haka ne aka fara jerin shirye-shiryen."  Gajerun labarai guda shida nata sun sake dawo da tatsuniyoyi na gargajiya, suna neman cike gibin dabaru. Kamar yadda Levine ta ce, "A cikin Barci Beauty, yariman ya ƙaunaci gimbiya lokacin da ya san abubuwa uku kawai game da ita: tana da kyau, ita gimbiya ce, kuma ba ta yin murmushi. A cikin Gimbiya Sonora da Dogon Barci . . . Na ba wa yariman ainihin dalilin sumbantar Sonora duk da cewa, bayan shekaru 100, an rufe ta da gizagizai! "  Tsayawa tare da wannan nau'in, Levine kuma ya rubuta littafin hoto, Betsy Who Cried Wolf, wanda ya dace da labarin Aesop na yaron da ya yi kuka Wolf .  A cikin 2010 ta fito da wani littafi na hoto na biyu mai suna Betsy Red Hoodie, wani daidaitawa na fable Little Red Riding Hood . 
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