Frances Temple (August 15, 1945 – July 5, 1995) was a primary school teacher, a writer of award-winning children's stories and young adult novels and illustrator.
Her carefully researched novels focus on the political and economic travails of young people across the globe.
Her works have dealt with poverty and oppression in contemporary El Salvador, two novels cover strife in contemporary Haiti, one is a retelling of a folk tale from Jamaica and two novels — part of a projected trilogy — are set in the Middle Ages, in Spain and Morocco.
Frances Nolting Temple was born on August 15, 1945, in Washington, DC.
[4] Tonight, by Sea was the 1995 winner of The Americas Award, given by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP).