Torey Hayden
Torey Hayden (born 1951 in Livingston, Montana, USA) is a child psychologist, special education teacher, university lecturer and writer who has written books about children under her care.
Hayden moved from the USA to Wales in 1980. She married a Scottish man in 1982 and had a daughter Sheena in 1985. She lives currently in Scotland.
Hayden writes fictionalized accounts of her real-life experiences with teaching children with special needs. Her pupils have been autistic, with Tourette syndrome or victims of sexual abuse and fetal alcohol syndrome.
Books:
- One Child (1980)
- Somebody Else’s Kids (1981)
- Murphy’s Boy (1983)
- The Sunflower Forest (fiction, 1984)
- Just Another Kid (1988)
- Ghost Girl (1991)
- The Tiger’s Child (1995)
- The Mechanical Cat (fiction, 1999)
- (not published in English but in Swedish, Italian, Finnish and Japanese)
- Beautiful Child (2002)
- The Very Worst Thing (fiction, 2003)
External links:
- Official/personal page (http://www.torey-hayden.com/)