![]() ![]() The book was popular and resulted in a follow-up, Ghost Soldier (Holt, 2001). Alphin made her publishing debut in 1991 with the middle-grade Ghost Cadet (Holt), the story of a boy named Benjy who helps the ghost of a cadet who died in the Civil War find a missing watch. ![]() She took the advice, turning her Richard III story into a work for middle-grade readers, Tournament of Time (Bluegrass, 1994). She assumed she would write fiction for adults, but she when met Arthur Alphin, whom she would later marry, he encouraged her to consider writing for a younger audience. Alphin spent the next year in England, doing research for a novel she was writing about Richard III and his murder of his nephews. After attending Rice University in Texas, Alphin received a Watson Research Fellowship, a grant given to graduating college seniors to fund independent study and travel outside the United States. ![]() ![]() She and her father spent many hours walking together and and telling each other stories, an experience that cemented her desire to become a writer. Her aspirations to become a writer started early, when she was three years old. Alphin, whose maiden name was Bonilla, was born in 1955 in San Francisco. Elaine Marie Alphin Elaine Marie Alphin, a celebrated and award-winning children’s book and young adult writer, died August 19, following a long illness. ![]()
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