Kathleen Marie Doyle

Kathleen Marie Doyle is an award winning children’s book author and teacher committed to education, the environment, and democracy. Her works include the historical nonfiction YA book, Allies for Justice: How Louis Redding and Collins Seitz Changed the Complexion of America’s Schools - which tells the story of Delaware’s role in Brown v. Board of Education; the historical fiction YA book, Blue’s River - the story of a river that has reached the point of no longer being able to support the humans who have come to rely on it; and Finding Pop Pop - a picture book for all ages about love, loss and joy. She has also published in Social Education, a magazine for social studies teachers.

Kathleen has been teaching teachers and teenagers in Delaware for over 30 years. She earned her Master of Arts in Teaching Secondary Social Studies at Brown University where she studied with renowned education reformer Theodore Sizer. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Social Thought and Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where she grew to love history (her least favorite subject in high school), and where her interest in social and environmental justice was nurtured. She is also a graduate of The Institute of Children’s Literature.

Kathleen lives with her husband in Dover, Delaware, where they are empty nesters with a big furry dog. Their daughter is a social worker in Washington, D.C. and their son is an actor in New York City.