Nora Raleigh Baskin (born May 18, 1961) is an American author of books for children and young adults.
[3] When Baskin was three, her mother committed suicide, and many of her own feelings surrounding that incident have later fueled her writing.
[5] In her novel Surfacing, Baskin describes grief and how for even small children a family tragedy can "scab over into guilt and blame," according to Kirkus Reviews.
[7] Baskin is the winner of the Cuffie Award from Publishers Weekly for Most Promising New Author.
[3] In 2010, she won the American Library Association's (ALA) Schneider Family Award for her book Anything but Typical.