What is Joanna Cole?
'''Joanna Cole''' (August 11, 1944<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=2188|title=Joanna Cole: biography|access-date=4 April 2010|publisher=Scholastic Books|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007031030/http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/joanna-cole-0|archive-date=2012-10-07|url-status=dead}}</ref> &ndash; July 12, 2020) was an American writer of [[children’s books]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80-10098#linkworksabout |title=Cole, Joanna |access-date=4 April 2010 |publisher=WorldCat.org |archive-date=22 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122005641/http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80-10098/#linkworksabout |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was most famous as the author of ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' series. She has written over 250 books. She was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]]. Cole died on July 12, 2020 in [[Sioux City, Iowa]] from [[idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis]] at the age of 75.<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joanna-cole-dead-author-magic-school-bus-book-series-dies-at-75-1303345 Joanna Cole, Author of 'The Magic School Bus' Book Series, Dies at 75]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cole, Joanna}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis]] [[Category:American children's writers]] [[Category:Writers from Newark, New Jersey]] {{US-bio-stub}}