ABOUT JAMIE GILSON
American children's book author most well known for her novels Do Bananas Chew Gum?, Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs, and Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub.
She attended the University of Missouri and later Northwestern University 's School of Communication.
She won the Carl Sandburg Award for Do Bananas Chew Gum?
She married attorney Jerome Gilson and they had three children together.
Joyce Carol Oates was another recipient of the Carl Sandburg Award.
