Twelve Fun Fact about Sarah Albee

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For Kids: Twelve Fun Facts About Sarah

• She’s the youngest of four kids.
• Her favorite food is a perfectly ripe mango.
• She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up in South Burlington, Vermont.
• She was the second-shortest girl in her seventh grade class, but then grew nine inches in a year and a half, topping out at 5’10.”
• She was captain of both her basketball and track teams in high school—they were state champs.
• She plays the violin. She also loves opera, especially Mozart operas.
• When she was growing up, her family had lots of dogs and cats, and also chickens, cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and an ornery watch-turkey named Simon who used to chase visitors up the walkway. Some of these visitors included boys who were there to pick up her older sister for a date. Awkward.
• She graduated from Harvard, and was a member of the humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon.
• She lived in Cairo, Egypt for a year, where she played semi-pro basketball and worked as an editor.
• She speaks varying amounts of Italian, French, and Arabic. (She knows how to argue with a referee in Arabic.)
• Her first big job out of college was at Sesame Street. She worked there for nine years.
• Her favorite books to read are anything about the history of medicine, disease, and sanitation. Her favorite author of books for adults is P.G. Wodehouse.