In Ireland, 'There used to be Shanachies.the shanachie was a storyteller who went from house to house telling his tales of ghosts and fairies, of old Irish heroes and battles still to be won. Literary career īunting went to school in Northern Ireland and grew up with story-telling. Of her first published story, The Two Giants, she says, 'I thought everybody in the world knew that story, and when I found they didn't - well, I thought they should.' īunting lives in Pasadena, California with her husband.

She felt the desire to write about her heritage. Bunting then enrolled in a community college writing course. In 1958, Bunting immigrated to the United States with her husband and three children, later attending Pasadena City College in 1959. After marrying, the couple moved to Scotland and started their family. She was educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland, attending Methodist College in the early 1940s and graduating in 1945 she then attended Queen's University, where she met her husband. She married business executive Edward Davidson Bunting, whom she met in college, on March 26, 1950, and has three children: Christine, Sloan, and Glenn. Life Īnne Evelyn Bunting was born in Maghera to Sloan Edmund Bolton, a postmaster, and Mary ( née Canning) Bolton, a homemaker. Due to the popularity of her books with children, she has been listed as one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors. Bunting's first book, The Two Giants, was published in 1971. While many of her books are set in Northern Ireland, where she grew up, her topics and settings range from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but she has also written the text for picture books. Her work covers a broad array of subjects and includes fiction and non-fiction books. Young adult fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, children's non-fictionĪnne Evelyn Bunting (née Bolton) (born December 19, 1928), is a Northern Ireland-born American writer of more than 250 books. Children's author, novelist, freelance writer, college instructor

The Wedding by Eve Bunting