Author Bio
X. J. and Dorothy M. Kennedy were born (respectively) in Dover, N.J. and Milwauikee. They met as graduate students at the University of Michigan, and have since produced five children, two best-selling college English textbooks, and two anthologies of poetry for children, Knock at a Star and Talking Like the Rain. On her own, Dorothy has compiled two other anthologies of verse for kids, and X. J. (known to his friends as Joe) two novels for ages 8-12, several books of verse for children and several for adults. He is a good enough poet to be quoted twice in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. At present they live in Lexington, Massachusetts, next door to a busy bike path, in a hundred-year-old house with a colony of rabbits under the front porch.