Alabama Authors Directory
The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.
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Alabama authors are writing in every genre, for every age and interest, and in just about every corner of the world. From the new and emerging to the underknown to the best known, the Alabama Authors Directory is a resource to discover writers and works that reflect our rich, lively literary culture.
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Charles Ghigna
Hometown: Homewood, Alabama Lives in: Homewood, AL
Contact Information
- Email: PaGoose@aol.com
- Website: http://www.FatherGoose.com
Address:
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- 204 West Linwood Drive
Homewood, AL 35209
United States
- 204 West Linwood Drive
- Phone: (205) 908-7393
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About Charles Ghigna
Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Children and Young Adults
Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person
Bio: Charles Ghigna – Father Goose® is the author of more than 100 books for children and adults from Disney, Random House, Schiffer, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Time Inc. and other publishers, and more than 5,000 poems that appear in anthologies, textbooks, newspapers, and magazines ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to Highlights and Cricket magazines. He served as poet-in-residence and chair of creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at …Read More
Works: Short sample of our more than 100 books:
THE FATHER GOOSE TREASURY OF POETRY, Schiffer Kids, 2023
STRANGE UNUSUAL GROSS & COOL ANIMALS, Animal Planet/Simon & Schuster, 2023
THE TRUTH ABOUT TREES, Negative Capability Press, 2021
DEAR POET: …Read More
Awards: National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1974
Alabama State Council on the Arts and Humanities Grant, 1974
Mary Robert Rinehart Foundation Grant, 1977
Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society Award, 1977
Writer’s Digest 1st Place Poetry Award, …Read More
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