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Genre
  
Young Adult

Name
  
Ellen Wittlinger

Role
  
Author


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Born
  
21 October 1948 Belleville, Illinois, U.S.A (
1948-10-21
)

Occupation
  
Novelist, young adult fiction writer

Notable works
  
Hard Love, ZigZag, others

Education
  
University of Iowa, Millikin University

Awards
  
Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult

Nominations
  
Michael L. Printz Award

Books
  
Hard Love, Parrotfish, Love & Lies: Marisol's, Gracie's girl, The long night of Leo and

Hard love by Ellen wittlinger chapter 1 part 2


Ellen Wittlinger (born in Belleville, Illinois on October 21, 1948) is an author for young adults, including Gracie's Girl and the Printz Honor book Hard Love.

Contents

Ellen wittlinger reads from parrotfish at new england trans pride


Biography

Ellen Wittlinger went to college at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and lives in western Massachusetts. She published a book of poetry, Breakers, in 1979. Wittlinger had two fellowship years in Provincetown at the Fine Arts Work Center and worked for a local newspaper, The Provincetown Advocate. One of Wittlinger's plays won the author's prize at the annual Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters competition. Her first novel for young adults, Lombardo's Law, was published in 1993.

References

Ellen Wittlinger Wikipedia