Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Jacqueline Briggs Martin is an American author of children's literature and a teacher of creative writing.

[5] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1966, and obtained a BA from the Institute of Child Development at University of Minnesota in 1971.

Some stories start with elements of her own family history and childhood, and others arise from interesting people she has heard about.

She spends much of her time doing background research and fact-checking to ensure historical details are present and accurate.

In Snowflake Bentley, she had to cut the story to fit the work's picture book format, so she saved some historical facts for sidebars on the pages for interested older readers.