Struggling with weight and self-confidencer as a teenager, Higgs refers to herself a "Former Bad Girl" in Bad Girls of the Bible series. Higgs attended Bellarmine College, graduating in with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She continued writing mysteries and romances up through her high school years. Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time was also an influence on her early reading.Īt the age of 10, Liz hand wrote her first novel in a Marble notebook-a Nancy Drew spinpoff she called Mountain Cabin Mystery. An avid reader even as a child, she started with Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames then moved on to Newberry medal winners. The youngest of six children, Higgs is a native of Lititz in eastern Pennsylvania. To date, Higgs has written thirty books, with more than three million copies in print, and is the recipient of several literary awards. She is also a veteran public speaker and former radio personality. Liz Curtis Higgs is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction books, as well as children's books.
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