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Whitney Stewart was born in Boston, raised in Wayland, Massachusetts, and began writing children’s biographies in 1987 after she met and interviewed the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, the subject of two of her books. For her next biographies, she trekked with Sir Edmund Hillary in Nepal, interviewed Burma’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, and climbed along China’s Great Wall to research the lives of Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong. In 2005, she collaborated with Australian illustrator Sally Rippin on the picture book Becoming Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha.
Stewart currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana with her husband and son. When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, she was trapped in a building and had to be helicoptered to safety three days after the storm. She lived on the island of Nantucket for five months and wrote two new books set there. In 2008 she authored a new picture book about an unknown tale of Abraham Lincoln.

Whitney Stewart was born in Boston, raised in Wayland, Massachusetts, and began writing children’s biographies in 1987 after she met and interviewed the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, the subject of two of her books. For her next biographies, she trekked with Sir Edmund Hillary in Nepal, interviewed Burma’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, and climbed along China’s Great Wall to resea... More