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Cynthia Voigt See rationale on the talk page, or replace this tag with a more specific message. Editing help is available., born on February 25th 1942, is American author of children's literature. She received the Newbery Medal for

The Tillerman Cycle follows the struggles of the eponymous family, beginning with , in which one generation of Tillerman children is abandoned by their mother, and must find their way to their estranged grandmother, under the leadership of Dicey, the eldest sibling and main character of the series. Three of the books are, however, centered on other characters--

The vast majority of Voigt's work is marked by a contemporary or historical setting and a realistic . The "Kingdom" books break from the former, being set in an unspecified but apparently invented region in a circa-medieval period of historical development. While the world is invented, however, it remains realistic in its construction, and resembles in most respects a historically faithful period setting, rather than a sword and sorcerer fairyland. What myths are present in the Kingdom are usually seen to have historical basis; the first novel, , deals with such a myth--a Robin Hood-like figure who is really just an archetype whose guise is donned by various nobles and commoners through the years.

The Kingdom books are connected by history and geography rather than the lifespan of any one character or family; though characters in later novels are sometimes descended from characters in earlier novels, their adventures are usually the stuff of myth or distant memory.

The Callender Papers (1983) (quasi-Gothic mystery involving a young girl in nineteenth-century New England who takes a summer job organizing the papers left behind by the death of the head of the troubled Callender family)