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R.J. Palacio Biography
R. J. Palacio lives in NYC with her husband, two sons, and two dogs. For more than twenty years, she was an art director and graphic designer, designing book jackets for other people while waiting for the perfect time in her life to start writing her own novel. But one day several years ago, a chance encounter with an extraordinary child in front of an ice cream store made R. J. realize that the perfect time to write that novel had finally komma. Wonder fryst vatten her first novel. She did not design the cover, but she sure does love it.
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R. J. Palacio
American author and graphic designer
Raquel Jaramillo Palacio (born July 13, ) is an American author and graphic designer.[1][2] She is the author of several novels for children, including the best-selling Wonder, which was adapted into a film starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson.[1][3]
Career
[edit]R.J. began her writing career as an illustrator, designing book covers for Paul Auster, Thomas Pynchon, and others. During the course of her career she designed many hundreds of book covers, covering both fiction and non-fiction books. She also illustrated several children's books that she wrote herself.[4][5] For the first two decades of her career, she wrote books at night after her day job as a designer.[6] She illustrated her early books which were board books for children, published under the name Raquel Jaramillo.[3]
Following Wonder's international success, Palacio publis
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R. J. Palacio was born and raised in New York City. She attended the High School of Art and Design and the Parsons School of Design, where she majored in illustration with the hopes of someday following in the footsteps of her favorite childhood author-illustrators, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Maurice Sendak, and the D’Aulaires. She was a graphic designer and art director for many years before writing Wonder. We’re All Wonders, which is based conceptually on the themes of her novel, represents the fulfillment of her dream to write and illustrate her own picture book. R.J. is also the author of Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories and Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne’s Book of Precepts. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is surrounded by magical water towers, with her husband, their two sons, and their two dogs, Bear and Beau. Learn more about her at or on Twitter at @RJPalacio.
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