She recalls that her first experience with creative writing occurred when she was incapacitated with a twisted ankle at age eight or nine. When she was seven, Klause and her family moved north to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Robinson before I ever saw any of their movies." Her father also let her speak to Willoughby, an imaginary little boy who lived down his throat. I knew all about Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Jimmy Cagney, and Edward G. "But my daddy used to sit me on his lap and tell me the plots to gangster and monster movies. "My mother read and sang to me," Klause explained. A vampire love story, Klause's first novel is a darkly seductive thriller with heart and message.īorn in Bristol, England, in 1953, Klause became fascinated with grisly things at an early age. Annette Curtis Klause broke new ground in young adult literature with The Silver Kiss, a book that is at once "sexy, scaring, and moving," according to Roger Sutton writing in the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
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