Ann Packer

Ann Packer is an American novelist and short story writer, born in 1959. Her books include The Dive From Clausen's Pier, a coming-of-age novel, and The Children's Crusade, a family drama in which a long-buried truth upends a young girl's household. Packer has received a James Michener Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the author of Some Bright Nowhere also wrote The Children's Crusade.