Jennifer Donnelly

Jennifer Donnelly is an American writer of youngadult fiction best known for the historical novel A Northern Light.

Donnelly was born in Port Chester, New York. Her paternal greatgrandparents immigrated from Dublin, Ireland to New York state and settled in the Adirondack region where her grandmother worked at a hotel on Big Moose Lake, the setting for A Northern Light. Donnellys own childhood was divided between the communities of Rye and Port Leyden, New York.

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