Kate DiCamillo is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into over thirty different languages across the world. She is also a regular winner of awards, most notably the prestigious Newbery Medal, which she won for both Flora and Ulysses : The Illuminated Adventures and The Tale of Despereaux. Of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate says, "One Christmas I received an elegantly dressed toy rabbit as a gift.
I brought him home, placed him on a chair in my living room and promptly forgot about him. A few days later, I dreamt that the rabbit was face down on the ocean floor — lost, and waiting to be found. In telling this story, I was lost for a good long while too. And then finally, like Edward, I was found." Kate lives in Minneapolis, USA.