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Joanne L Sparks

Born: 1959 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Joanne L. Sparks was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, in an Irish-American neighborhood.

Biography: Joanne's childhood was spent playing street baseball, reading books about Native Americans and wolves, and watching monster movies on 'Creature Features.' She currently lives in Plainfield, Illinois, with her husband of seventeen years, Brett, the poet and musician, and their two sons, Dylan and Declan. She is working on the final installment to the trilogy, Totems and the Power of Trinity.

Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Joanne L Sparks on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=joanne+l+sparks

Selected Titles

Toltems II
ISBN: 1600021581 OCLC: 176918587

Airleaf Publishing 2007

Totems
ISBN: 1413729754 OCLC: 624007990

PublishAmerica 2004

 

 

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