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Wonder is a contemporary children's novel written by R. J. Palacio [2] and published on 14 February 2012. Wonder is in part inspired by an incident where the author's son started to cry after noticing a girl with a severe facial deformity. Inspiration was also pulled from Natalie Merchant 's song of the same name.
R. J. Palacio was born on July 13, 1963, in New York City, United States. She attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, Parsons School of Design, and the American University in Paris. She has worked as a designer and art director in Scribner, Holt, and Workman Publishers. She published her best-selling debut novel, ‘ Wonder ...
About R. J. Palacio. R. J. Palacio is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. The book’s message inspired the Choose Kind movement and has been embraced by readers around the world, with the book published in… More about R. J. Palacio
R.J. Palacio. (born 1963). American author and graphic designer R.J. Palacio illustrated other authors’ work as well as her own projects. She was perhaps best-known for writing the book Wonder (2012), which was turned into a major motion picture in 2017. Raquel Jaramillo Palacio was born on July 13, 1963, in New York, New York.
Feb 14, 2012 · R. J. Palacio. R. J. Palacio was born and raised in New York City. She attended the High School of Art and Design and the Parsons School of Design, where she majored in illustration with the hopes of someday following in the footsteps of her favorite childhood author-illustrators, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Maurice Sendak, and the D’Aulaires.
Aug 24, 2023 · The Book That Made R.J. Palacio Cry on the Subway. Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” got to her: “Sure, it’s a novel full of unbelievable violence and apocalyptic nightmare stuff,” says the ...
R. J. Palacio was an art director and graphic designer for more than 20 years, while waiting for the perfect time to start writing her own novel. When she had a chance encounter with an extraordinary child in front of an ice cream store, she realized the time had come to tell Auggie’s story. In the spring of 2012, Wonder inspired a movement ...
