Tears of the Salamander

PETER DICKINSON is the author of many books for adults and young readers and has won numerous awards, including the Carnegie Medal (twice), the Guardian Award and the Whitbread Award (also twice). His novel Eva was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Honor Book. Eva was also selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, as were his novels AK and A Bone from a Dry Sea. The Lion Tamer’s Daughter and Other Stories was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal. His most recent book was The Ropemaker, which was selected as a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Peter Dickinson has four grown children and lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife, the writer Robin McKinley.