Eugene Pool

Eugene Pool writes for both children and adults. His books for young readers include Fly For Your Life, The Captain of Battery Park, The Ocelot Secret, The Art of Fairy Tales, and the IPPY award-winning Heroic Women of the Art World. For adults he wrote The 100-Year Secret and Summer House, a collection of poems. Other writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Colby College Library Journal, and other media.

After graduating from Harvard, Pool taught art history and English at two private schools, Buckingham Browne & Nichols in Cambridge, MA and Winsor in Boston. He won several awards for his teaching, including his “exceptional ability to communicate with diverse audiences.” He and his family spend most summers on an island in Maine. It's a great place to start a book!