Harmony (Parkhurst)

Author Bio
• Birth—January 18, 1971
• Raised—Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
• Education—B.A., Weslyan University; M.F.A., America University
• Currently—lives in Washington, D.C.


Carolyn Parkhurst is an American author who has published several books. Her first, the 2003 The Dogs of Babel (Lorelei's Secret in the UK) was a New York Times Notable Book and on the New York Times Best Seller List.

She followed that effort with Lost and Found in 2006, The Nobodies Album in 2010, and Harmony in 2016. Her first children's book, Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly, was co-authored with Dan Yaccarino in 2010.

Parkhurst grew up in Waltham, Massachusetts, the only child of parents who separated when she was two. Parkhurst spent so much time reading, she had to be sent outside to play. Her first story, she says, was written at age three by dictating The Table Family to her mother, the first of her stories to appear in print was for a Halloween contest by a local newspaper, and her first job in publishing came at 15, writing record reviews for a magazine called Star Hits.

Parkhurst received her B.A. degree from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from American University. Married since 1998 and the mother of two children, she currently resides in Washington, D.C. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved  8/9/2016.)