Cynthia Lord is an American author of children's literature.
Her debut novel Rules was published by Scholastic, Inc. in 2006, and was a 2007 Newbery Honor book and winner of the Schneider Family Book Award.
[1] Lord was born in Massachusetts and grew up in New Hampshire.
[2] In college, Lord had some short stories published, and won a contest with one.
[citation needed] Lord lives with her husband and their two children, one of whom has autism, in Brunswick, Maine.