![]() ![]() Her novels Journey (1991) and Baby (1993) were also adapted for TV in 19, respectively. The two actors subsequently reprised their roles in the sequel Skylark two years later. It was adapted as a TV movie by the same name in 1991, starring Glenn Close and Christopher Walken, with MacLachlan as one of its screenwriters. Six years later, she was awarded the Newbery Medal for her book Sarah, Plain and Tall. She published her first volume, The Sick Day, in 1979, with her first novel, Arthur, for the Very First Time, being released the following year. She then began writing at the age of 35, after her children started attending school. She was also employed by a family services agency during this time. MacLachlan first worked as an English teacher at Bennett Junior High School in Manchester, Connecticut from 1963 until 1979. MacLachlan later studied English at the University of Connecticut, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1962. ![]() Her family moved to Rochester, Minnesota, when she was five years old, then relocating to Connecticut after she completed elementary as well as middle school. Her father, Philo, was a professor of philosophy of education her mother, Madonna, was an American English teacher before becoming a homemaker. MacLachlan was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 3, 1938. She was noted for her novel Sarah, Plain and Tall, which won the 1986 Newbery Medal. Patricia Marie MacLachlan ( née Pritzkau Ma– March 31, 2022) was an American children's writer. ![]() Children's and young-adult novels, historical fiction ![]()
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