Welcome to "Meet the Authors & Illustrators." Here you'll find a quick one-page biography for our authors and illustrators, as well as links to their brochures and websites.
Tammi Sauer grew up on a farm outside the small town of Victoria, Kansas. While there she chased pigs, kept tabs on the cows, and occasionally danced with chickens. These days, Tammi bawks and rolls with her husband and their two children in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Tammi decided to write for children when her favorite college professor - Dr. Marjorie Hancock - told her she should. If this teacher would have said, “Tammi, you’d make an excellent sky-diver,” Tammi would have agreed to it. She was a total teacher’s pet. Well, she’s convinced she would have been if her teachers hadn’t spent the bulk of their days telling her to quiet down.
Tammi is a former teacher and library media specialist. She has given over a hundred fun, engaging, and informative presentations for preschoolers through sixth graders. With a little magic, some humor, just the right props, and a lot of audience participation, Tammi Sauer promises to rock your crowd. Read More...
Una Belle Townsend--Una Belle's claim to fame (along with being an accomplished published author!) is that she was born and raised in Marshall, Texas, the same town where many famous people came from, including Susan Howard (actress), George Foreman (boxer), and Bill Moyers (PBS). Also, Lady Bird Johnson went to high school there. Lady Bird graduated at the age of 15. Una Belle did not.
Una Belle Townsend lived with her parents and her two sisters, Ruth and Beth. Her father worked for the Texas and Pacific Railroad until his death, when Townsend was only twelve years old.
Townsend received her B.S. in elementary education from East Texas Baptist College. After earning her bachelor’s degree, she continued her education and earned her master’s degree in elementary education from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. Read more . . . .
Web site: Not available but you can contact Una Belle through this site Available for Speaking: Yes Brochure: coming soon!
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Richard Trout firmly believes that ordinary people can do extraordinary things! Richard Trout is a biologist, college professor, and author of young adult novels. He comes from a family rich in historical heritage both in Texas and Oklahoma. His grandmother, Annie Miller was born in Granbury, Texas and crossed the Red River as a little girl in a covered wagon.She married into a Chicakasaw family, the Trouts, in Indian Territory.It was Annie Miller’s great grandfather who fought in the Texas Revolution and was honored a few years ago by the Texas Legislature. Professor Trout’s family still has the original Republic of Texas land deed to their ranch in Milam County, Republic of Texas.
As a seventh grade student in Lubbock, Texas, Richard entered an essay contest, writing about his Texas heritage for the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. He won a medal for his region and this began his writing career. The son of a minister, Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Richard counts his growing up years in Levelland, Texas, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Lubbock, Texas, and Duncan, Oklahoma as the formative time of his life. But he spent many summers at his grandparents farm in the Arbuckle Mountains of Southern Oklahoma, near the tiny town of Pooleville where he learned to noodle for catfish in nearby streams and harvest wild honey from “live” beehives in trees near an alfalfa pasture. His grandfather, Harrison Cleveland Trout, taught him how to safely handle rifles for hunting and to be a good fisherman. Read More...
