A. B. Curtiss is an award-winning author as well as a cognitive behavioral therapist, a licensed marriage-family therapist and a lecturer on personal growth, self-awareness and Directed Thinking, a system of mind tricks and awareness training to combat depression. Curtiss's experience as a successful author is a series of firsts. The first essay she ever wrote was published on the op-ed page of The New York Times and was picked up by The Boston Globe for its op-ed page. Dozens of essays followed on the op-ed pages of other newspapers such as The Minneapolis Star & Tribune and The San Diego Union-Tribune. Her first children's book, IN THE COMPANY OF BEARS won a 1994 Benjamin Franklin Award, was featured on a PBS-TV reading enrichment program, appeared on the ABC World of Discovery, and was featured in the Border's Books Christmas Catalog. She now has four additional children's books in print: HALLELUJAH, A CAT COMES BACK, LEGEND OF THE GIANT PANDA, TIME OF THE WILD and A TRAIN YOU NEVER SAW. Her first adult fiction, CHILDREN OF THE GODS, won a 1995 San Diego Book Award. And now her first adult nonfiction book, Depression is a Choice, was published by Hyperion.

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