At 7, she wrote and illustrated her first novel, a horror story about a girl who kills her brothers.
Her first recognition for her writing came when she won a contest in third grade by writing an essay about her mother for Mother's Day. In kindergarten, she wrote in her Brownie manual that she wanted to be a writer and a mother when she grew up. Sherri is is severely dyslexic, but even as a child Kenyon knew that she wanted to be a writer. At 20, Sherri was devastated when her brother Buddy died. After 18 months, the girls could moved to Atlanta with the rest of the family. Her father left the family when she was only eight, and her mother was forced to send her sons to live with family in Atlanta, Georgia, while she took care of her daughters, because Sherri's older sister, Trish, has severe cerebral palsy.
She grew up in the middle of a very big family, she had eight brothers and one sister.
Sherrilyn Kenyon, known as Sherri, was born on 11 December 1965 in Columbus, Georgia, USA.
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