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J.A. LeVitt can’t remember a time that she didn’t like to write. While growing up in Alabama and Northwest Florida, she often visited her grandparents in a company town remarkably similar to the one in GHOSTS OF WHITNER. When asked if ghosts there inspired the book, Ms. LeVitt only smiles. After receiving her master’s degree in reading and writing from the University of North Texas, Ms. LeVitt taught those subjects for many years before becoming a writer of children’s novels. She lives in central Texas on a pink granite hilltop overlooking a lake with her artist husband, four dogs and a cat.

Ghosts of Whitner (WordWright, 2004) is Ms. LeVitt’s first book.