Bond, Nancy.

Author, children's fiction. Nancy (Barbara) Bond was born in Bethesda, Maryland on 8 January 1945. A portion of her childhood was spent in England and the remainder in the Conantum neighborhood in Concord, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College in 1966 and a Dip. Lib. Wales from the College of Librarianship in Wales in 1972. She was the Director of the Heywood Library in Gardner, Massachusetts from 1974-1975. From 1979 to 2001 Nancy taught a writing course at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature. She works in a studio at the Emerson Umbrella in Concord and has worked at the Barrow Bookstore in Concord since 1980. Nancy Bond's work includes the following titles: A String in the Harp (Atheneum, 1976); The Best of Enemies (Atheneum, 1978); Country of Broken Stone (Atheneum, 1980); The Voyage Begun (Atheneum, 1981); A Place To Come Back To (Atheneum, 1984); Another Shore (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1998; Macmillan); Truth To Tell (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1994; Macmillan); Love of Friends (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1997; Simon and Schuster.). The String in the Harp was a 1976 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and a 1977 Newbery Honor Book. In 1976 it was also awarded the International Reading Association Award and the Welsh Arts Council's Tir na n'og for the best English-language children's book about Wales. The Voyage Begun was a 1982 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.