Han Nolan

Who is Han Nolan?

Han Nolan is an American writer for young adults from Alabama. She has published eight young adult novels. She won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1997 for the novel Dancing on the Edge; among others she thanked "critique groups both in Connecticut and Alabama".

Nolan has been fascinated with stories since early childhood. Even as a little girl she would spin yarns for her friends. She did not always want to be a writer. For many years she focused her energies on becoming a dancer. After trying to maintain her sanity on a dancer's schedule for years, she went back to her first identity, that of a storyteller. Many of her novels feature a main character struggling to make it in an adult world.