Joan Lowery

Biography

Joan Lowery Nixon was first published when she was just ten. A poem she wrote appeared in a children's magazine. She sold her first article to a magazine when she was seventeen. Joan majored in journalism at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.

There were few jobs for journalists at this time, so she found another way to make a living at the other thing she loved to do. She took a temporary job teaching kindergarten and first grade in the Los Angeles city schools. Joan enjoyed teaching so much she went to night school and took the courses I'd need for my credentials.

In 1964 Joan’s first book was published. She has won lots of awards for her books.