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Currently, Sharon Draper is 72 years, 4 months and 1 days old. Sharon Draper will celebrate 73rd birthday on a Thursday 21st of August 2025. Below we countdown to Sharon Draper upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Sharon Draper |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 72 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 21, 1952 (Cleveland, OH) |
| Birthday | August 21 |
| Town/City | Cleveland, OH |
| Nationality | OH |
Sharon Draper’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Sharon Draper was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Author of the successful Jericho Trilogy and the popular Ziggy series. She is perhaps best known for her 2001 novel Darkness Before Dawn.
She graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
She received a 1997 Coretta Scott King Award for her novel Forged by Fire.
She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and later settled in Cincinnati. She married Larry Draper.
She was a speaker at the National Book Festival, an event established by First Lady Laura W. Bush in 2001.
