![]() ![]() ![]() In 2006 National Geographic Books published Kimmel's non-fiction book Ladies First: 40 Daring Women Who Were Second to None, which was listed on CBC’s lists of Notable Trade Books in Social Studies, and chosen as a KidsPost Book of the Week by the Washington Post. In 2005 she wrote the first of three middle-grade novels in the perennially popular "Lily B." series. In 2003, book 3 of that series, In the Eye of the Storm: The Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill won the Western Writers of America Spur Award. Over the next several years Kimmel published a factually based historical fiction series about the childhood of Buffalo Bill Cody, to whom she is related. The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators named it a Golden Kite Honor Book. In 1999 she published the non-fiction Ice Story:Shackleton's Lost Expedition, about the doomed 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. This book won the Minnesota Youth Reading Award. Kimmel's first published book was In the Stone Circle, a historical mystery set in Wales. ![]() She graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1986. While in New York, she attended Emma Willard School, graduating in 1982. She grew up in Westchester County, New York and Brussels, Belgium. ![]()
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