About Pam Muñoz Ryan:
Pam Muñoz Ryan was born in Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley of California on Silas December 25, 1951. She began writing when she was encouraged by a professor during graduate school. "It took me a number of years to make that leap of faith," she states when commenting on becoming a full-time writer. That "came" in 1994 after she published her first picture book.