Clare Vanderpool (born 1965) is an American children's book author living in Wichita, Kansas.
Her first book, Moon Over Manifest, won the 2011 Newbery Medal,[1] becoming the first debut author to achieve the feat in thirty years.
Clare Vanderpool attended Blessed Sacrament elementary school, and later graduated from Newman University in 1987.
[5][6] Clare decided she wanted to be a writer in the fifth grade, and realized her childhood dream at the age of 45 when her first book was published.
She is married and lives with her husband in the College Hill neighborhood of Wichita, Kansas with their four children.