Authors on the Web
School Library Journal, March 24, 2012
...no R.J. Palacio. Nope. Turns out that’s a pen name for Workman Publishing editor Raquel Jaramillo. PW tells the story of how Jaramillo came to write the book and the type of buzz it has received. Bear all this in mind when the...
NPR, March 22, 2012
...Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approx. 9:00 a.m. ET Raquel Jaramillo's debut novel, , written under the pen name R.J. Palacio, was born out of a rather embarrassing incident. The author was out with her two sons, sitting in...
The West Online, March 6, 2012
...R.J. Palacio, or Raquel Jaramillo, is a New York-based graphic designer who has been a "closet writer" for most of her life. "I used to go home each night and secretly start writing,"...
Telegraph, February 24, 2012
...this debut novel. Its author R.J Palacio is a New York-based graphic designer - otherwise known as Raquel Jaramillo - who has worked in publishing for years. Her book has been adroitly marketed. In Wonder, heartstrings are well and truly yanked and...
Telegraph, February 21, 2012
...In the Latin tradition Palacio took her mother's name as her pen name her real name is Raquel Jaramillo. 'She always said to me, remember, you're a writer,' says Palacio, who was raised in a working-class neighbourhood in Queens, surrounded by books. 'I...
Telegraph, February 21, 2012
...In the Latin tradition Palacio took her mother's name as her pen name her real name is Raquel Jaramillo. 'She always said to me, remember, you're a writer,' says Palacio, who was raised in a working-class neighbourhood in Queens, surrounded by books. 'I...
Observer, February 18, 2012
...picked up by his peers â all of whom are just as uncannily charming. Palacio, otherwise known as Raquel Jaramillo, has worked in publishing for years and has a cabinet full of her own unfinished stories. Writing Wonder, though, was a completely...
Telegraph, February 24, 2012
...this debut novel. Its author R.J Palacio is a New York-based graphic designer - otherwise known as Raquel Jaramillo - who has worked in publishing for years. Her book has been adroitly marketed. In Wonder, heartstrings are well and truly yanked and...
Telegraph, February 21, 2012
...In the Latin tradition Palacio took her mother's name as her pen name her real name is Raquel Jaramillo. 'She always said to me, remember, you're a writer,' says Palacio, who was raised in a working-class neighbourhood in Queens, surrounded by books. 'I...
Observer, February 18, 2012
...picked up by his peers â all of whom are just as uncannily charming. Palacio, otherwise known as Raquel Jaramillo, has worked in publishing for years and has a cabinet full of her own unfinished stories. Writing Wonder, though, was a completely...


