Note: Publisher, editor, and award-winning children's book author. Giblin was born in Cleveland in 1933 and grew up in Ohio. In the early to mid-1960s Giblin was an associate editor at Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, then moved to Seabury Press in 1967 and became editor-in-chief, spearheading the development of the children's book line there, later called Clarion Books. When Houghton Mifflin bought Clarion in the late 1970s, Giblin moved to the company as Clarion's publisher. (source: Publishers Weekly)