Abouraya, Karen Leggett

LC control no.	n 2011064731
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Abouraya, Karen Leggett *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated place	Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio) Washington (D.C.) Providence (R.I.) Alexandria (Egypt)
Affiliation	National Wildlife Refuge System (U.S.) WMAL (Radio station : Washington, D.C.) Voice of America (Organization) Brown University NAFSA: Association of International Educators (Washington, D.C.)
Profession or occupation	Children's author Writer Book reviewer Broadcast journalist
Found in	Hands around the library, 2012: ECIP t.p., etc. (Karen Leggett Abouraya; published by Dial Books for Young Readers in New York; co-author is Susan L. Roth) Author's website, August 9, 2018: (Karen Leggett Abouraya; grew up in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; former broadcast journalist for many years on ABC Radio WMAL in Washington, D.C., where she began reviewing and discussing children's books; she has reviewed children's books and interviewed authors for the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, Children's Literature, and Washington Parent; currently a writer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (National Wildlife Refuge System), Voice of America, and International Educator magazine (NAFSA); degree in international relations from Brown University; she met her Egyptian husband in Washington; she has two children; her husband's hometown is Alexandria, Egypt, which they have visited many times; author of Hands around the library) <http://childrenslit.com/2014/11/05/karen-leggett-abouraya/>
Associated language	eng