Peg kehret biography

American author

Peg Kehret (born Margaret Ann Schulze on November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 10 and 15.

After beating three types of polio at age 12, Kehret went on to become an author of children's, young adults', and adults' literature, winning over fifty awards throughout her career.

Life

Margaret Ann Schulze was born on November 11, 1936, in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Peg kehret biography

She contracted polio at age 12 in 1949.^[1] She had each of the three types of polio: spinal, respiratory, and bulbar. She was paralyzed from the neck down and had a nine-month hospital stay. The experience changed Kehret's life, as she describes in her 1996 memoir Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio.^[2] Kehret made a complete recovery aside from lingering post-polio syndrome.

She later graduated from Austin High School and then attended the University of Minnesota for one year.^[3] In 1955, she married Carl Kehret