Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Ann Peyton Fearrington was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College, where she won the Freshman Writing Award for poetry. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she studied art under George Bireline, a Guggenheim Fellow, and received a B.A. in English and Education. As a student, Ms. Fearrington wrote for the UNC Daily Tar Heel and later for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

Before earning a master's degree in botany and horticulture at North Carolina State University, Ms. Fearrington taught creative writing, English, Latin, and drama in middle school. During graduate school, she studied at the NCSU School of Design, and several of her poems were published in various literary magazines.

In the 1980's and 90's Ms. Fearrington volunteered in Wake County school libraries and wrote and illustrated children's travel features for the Raleigh News & Observer.

Clockwise from left to right: Vance, Ann, Joseph, James, and Jonathan (1984)

her first picture book, was published by Houghton Mifflin Company, October 1996. The book was designated as the American Bookseller's "Pick of the Lists." The first and second printings sold out before Christmas '96. Accompanying the publication of Christmas Lights was a one-artist show of the book's original paintings at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Ms. Fearrington's second picture book was published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY, July 2002. This is a rhyming, counting book for all ages. It includes 11 American lighthouses, a history of lighthouses, and a list of all the standing American lighthouses. Who Sees the Lighthouse? received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly.

Ms. Fearrington is also the author and illustrator of Little Green Book, 18 Keys to Your Child's Reading Success, published by the News & Observer, 1998. Up In the Air, Junior Birdmen, her serialized picture book syndicated by the News & Observer, and Little Green Book have been recognized by the Newspaper Association of America and the Southern Newspaper Association with their Literacy Awards. The Little Green Book also received the James B. Hunt Literacy Award given by the International Reading Association.

Teacher and Librarian Guide for the Little Green Book and Pequeño Libro Verde - the Spanish edition of the Little Green Book are also part of The Little Green Book series.

United Arts Council of Raleigh-Wake County designated Ms. Fearrington "Writer-in-Residence for the Raleigh-Wake County Schools, 1997-2000." She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in America and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. Married and the mother of three boys, she writes, paints, and gardens in Raleigh, North Carolina.

From Left to Right: Joseph, James, and Jonathan. (summer of 1988)


	Ann Peyton Fearrington was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College, where she won the Freshman Writing Award for poetry. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she studied art under George Bireline, a Guggenheim Fellow, and received a B.A. in English and Education. As a student, Ms. Fearrington wrote for the UNC Daily Tar Heel and later for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. Before earning a master's degree in botany and horticulture at North Carolina State University, Ms. Fearrington taught creative writing, English, Latin, and drama in middle school. During graduate school, she studied at the NCSU School of Design, and several of her poems were published in various literary magazines. In the 1980's and 90's Ms. Fearrington volunteered in Wake County school libraries and wrote and illustrated children's travel features for the Raleigh News & Observer.

		Clockwise from left to right: Vance, Ann, Joseph, James, and Jonathan (1984)

her first picture book, was published by Houghton Mifflin Company, October 1996. The book was designated as the American Bookseller's "Pick of the Lists." The first and second printings sold out before Christmas '96. Accompanying the publication of Christmas Lights was a one-artist show of the book's original paintings at the North Carolina Museum of Art.