Name Elizabeth Partridge | Role Writer | |
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Awards Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children, Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction Books Marching for Freedom, This Land Was Made for You a, Oranges on Golden Mountain, Kogi's mysterious journey, Moon glowing | ||
Elizabeth Partridge (born September 1, 1951) is an American writer, the author of more than a dozen books from young-adult nonfiction to picture books to photography books. Her books include Marching for Freedom (2009, Viking), as well the biographies John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking, 2005), This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie (Viking, 2002), and Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Viking, 1999). Her latest book is the middle grade novel, Dogtag Summer (Bloomsbury, 2011).
Contents
- Young adult nonfiction
- Adult nonfiction
- Novels
- Picture books
- Essays and short stories
- Awards and runners up etc
- References
Partridge is the daughter of photographer Rondal Partridge and the granddaughter of photographer Imogen Cunningham and etcher Roi Partridge.
Partridge has been a National Book Award finalist, an ALA Michael L. Printz Award runner-up, and twice a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award runner-up. She has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award, and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.
Partridge is on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults. She chaired the National Book Award Committee for Young People's Literature in 2007 and has served on the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Committee and the SCBWI Golden Kite Award committee.
Young adult nonfiction
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary (Viking 2009)John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking, 2005)This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Viking, 2002)Restless Spirit: the Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Viking, 1998)Adult nonfiction
Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge (Heyday Press, 2003)Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Smithsonian University Press, 1993)Novels
Dogtag Summer. (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2011)Clara and the Hoodoo Man. (Dutton Children's Books, 1996)Picture books
Big Cat Pepper Illustrated by Lauren Castille. (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2009)Whistling. Illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines. (Harper Collins, 2003)Kogi's Mysterious Journey. Illustrated by Aki Sogabi. (Dutton Children's Books, 2003)Moon Glowing. Illustrated by Joan Paley.(Dutton Children's Books, 2002)Oranges on Golden Mountain. Illustrated by Aki Sogabi. (Dutton Children's Books, 2002)Pigs Eggs. Illustrated by Martha Weston. (Globe Books, 2000)Essays and short stories
"This Was America, 1960," John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address. (Viking, 2010)"Looking for America," Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places. (Viking, 2003)Awards and runners-up, etc
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
Kogi's Mysterious Journey
Clara and the Hoodoo Man