Rita Williams-Garcia
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Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) is an American writer of young-adult novels. She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award,[1] Coretta Scott King Award,[2][3] and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction[4] for her book, One Crazy Summer. She won the PEN/Norma Klein Award.[5][6] Her book, P.S. Be Eleven, won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2014.[7] In 2016 her book, Gone Crazy in Alabama won the Coretta Scott King Award.
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Life
Williams-Garcia was born in Queens, New York. Her father was in the military. She graduated from Hofstra University in 1980, where she studied with Richard Price and Sonya Pilcer. She lives in Jamaica, New York. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.[8]
Works
- Blue Tights, Lodestar Books, 1988, ISBN 978-0-525-67234-0
- Fast Talk on a Slow Track, Dutton, 1991, ISBN 978-0-525-67334-7; reprint, Paw Prints, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4352-7952-0
- Like Sisters on the Homefront, Lodestar Books, 1995, ISBN 978-0-525-67465-8; reprint, Paw Prints, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4352-4403-0
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- P.S. Be Eleven, 2013, ISBN 0061938629
- Gone Crazy in Alabama, 2015
References
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- ↑ [1] Archived August 18, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ And the Newbery, Caldecott award winners are ..., Ashley Strickland, CNN, January 27, 2014
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External links
- "Warning: Characters May Appear As They Are or Why I Write Realistic Fiction", Hunger Mountain
- "Author Interview: Rita Williams-Garcia on Jumped", Cynsations, March 27, 2009
- "Learning About Rita Williams-Garcia", Rutgers
- Mélina Mangal, Rita Williams-Garcia, Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2003, ISBN 978-1-58415-217-0
- Rita Williams-Garcia at Library of Congress Authorities, with 10 catalog records
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Categories:
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- American children's writers
- American young adult novelists
- Newbery Honor winners
- Hofstra University alumni
- Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty
- People from Queens, New York
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- 1957 births
- Living people
- Women children's writers
- American women novelists
- Women writers of young adult literature
