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PENNY COLMAN Visit Penny Colman's website! www.pennycolman.com To Contact Penny Colman:
When Penny was eleven years old, a writer and photographer came from New York City to her house to do an article titled, “The Strangest Place to Find a Happy Family” that was published in Redbook Magazine. After two years of college, Penny decided to hitchhike through Europe. When she returned home, she finished college, went to graduate school, got married, and had three children (two were twins), all within four years. For the next seventeen years, Penny Colman threw herself into being an active mom, volunteer, on-and-off writer, teacher, consultant, project manager, and art gallery owner. Finally, she decided to be a full-time writer in 1987, embarking on a challenging and exciting career. In addition to researching and writing her award-winning books, Colman takes photographs and does extensive picture research for her books, including Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II, Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America, and Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II. She has appeared on television, radio, and the Internet, including Nickelodeon's "Nick News" with Linda Ellerbee, Looseleaf Book Company with Tom Bodett, ABC World News, and Booktv C-Span2. She teaches at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. Visit Penny Colman's website! www.pennycolman.com To Contact Penny Colman:
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Born in Denver Colorado, Penny
Colman also lived in Oregon, Washington, and Kentucky before her parents settled in North Warren, Pennsylvania,
a small town in the northwest corner of the state. Her father was a psychiatrist at the state mental hospital.
She lived on the grounds of the mental hospital along with her father; her mother, an artist; and three brothers.