Claudia Mills

Claudia Mills is the author of over 50 books for young readers, including recent titles Zero Tolerance, The Trouble with Ants (launch title in the Nora Notebooks series), and Izzy Barr, Running Star (third title in the Franklin School Friends series). Her books have been named Notable Books by the American Library Association, nominated for dozens of state readers’ choice awards, and translated into half a dozen languages. Claudia, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University, recently left her full-time position as a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she published many scholarly articles on ethical and philosophical themes in children’s literature. She is now a frequent visiting professor at DePauw University as well as a former Frederick Professor.