Beryl Young Author Biography
Beryl Young is the author of poems, stories and radio talks, the producer of music records for babies as well as the author of three children's books.
She was born in Saskatchewan and has lived in many places across Canada. She has been a writer-in-residence at Wallace Stegner House in Saskatchewan and with the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico.
Her first fiction book Wishing Star Summer (2001) was on B.C. best-seller lists and received many award nominations. Her non-fiction book Charlie: a Home Child's Life in Canada(2009) has been short-listed for awards across Canada. Her newest book, Follow the Elephant was released in the spring of 2010.
Beryl lives in Vancouver and has three children and four grandchildren.