Patricia Reilly Giff’s Death – Cause and Date

The children’s author Patricia Reilly Giff died at the age of 86. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

American teacher and author of children’s books. She was best known for her Polk Street School series.

She had three children with her husband, Jim.

How did Patricia Reilly Giff die?

Patricia Reilly Giff, a prolific children’s book author whose work was driven by the idea that remarkable stories could be spun from the lives of ordinary people, died on June 22 at her home in Trumbull, Conn. She was 86. The cause was cancer, her daughter, Alice O’Meara, said.

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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people’s thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people’s stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I’d like my books to provide that connection for them.

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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers – teaching, writing, and my family.

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If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn’t have a friend.

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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, ‘Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.’

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