Peg Kehret
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 Peg Kehret facts

• Kehret was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin
• After a normal childhood, she contracted polio at age 12 in 1949
• Her infection, which occurred along with 42,033 other cases, involved each of the three types of polio damage: spinal, respiratory, and the least common kind, bulbar
• The infection left her paralyzed her from the neck and down and also resulted in a nine-month hospital stay
• The experience changed Kehret's life, as she describes in her memoir Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
• Most of Kehret's books are based on events and places in her life
• For example, The Ghost's Grave; there used to be a small cemetery up the road where she lived as a child, with the same name on a grave stone as the one in the book
• In 1955, she married Carl Kehret; they moved to California and adopted two children, Bob and Anne
• Before Kehret began writing children's books she wrote plays, radio commercials and magazine stories
• In 1978, the Kehrets moved to Washington