Deborah Kops

Deborah Kops has written more than twenty nonfiction books for children and young adults. Her most recent title is Alice Paul and the Fight for Women’s Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment (Calkins Creek, 2017).

Kops has been in love with words—writing, reading, and listening to them—for as long as she can remember. When she was a child, her mother read her fairytales and her father told her stories. After she learned to read, Nancy Drew books became an early favorite. When she was in fourth grade, a wonderful teacher, Mrs. Silvers, set aside plenty of time for creative writing. Kops wrote long, dramatic stories, often with tragic endings.

As an adult, Kops discovered that she enjoyed doing research as much as she liked writing. Now she writes books on subjects she wants to learn more about herself, from The Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919 (Charlesbridge, 2012) to the story of Alice Paul, one of the great feminist leaders of the twentieth century.