Elizabeth Partridge

Partridge in 2009

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).[1] Her latest book is the middle grade novel, Dogtag Summer (Bloomsbury, 2011).[2]

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,[3] an ALA Michael L. Printz Award runner-up,[4] and twice a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award runner-up.[5][6][7] 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.[8] 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.

Publications

Young adult nonfiction

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary (Viking 2009)[9]
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

References

  1. ↑ Marcus, Leonard. "Children Who Changed the World." New York Times, 1/10/10. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/books/review/Marcus-t.html?_r=0
  2. ↑ Noyce, Pendred. "Dog Tag Summer," New York Journal of Books. 3/15/11, http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/dogtag-summer
  3. ↑ National Book Award Recipient List, 2002: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2002.html#.UQG1XUqloVk
  4. ↑ Michael L. Printz Award Recipient List: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/printzaward/previouswinners/winners
  5. ↑ Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Recipient List: http://archive.hbook.com/bghb/past/past.asp
  6. ↑ Partridge, Elizabeth, Acceptance Speech, 2003: http://archive.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2003/jan03_partridge.asp
  7. ↑ Partridge, Elizabeth. Acceptance Speech, 2011: http://archive.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2011/jan11_partridge.asp
  8. ↑ Vermont College of Fine Arts, Faculty Page, http://www.vcfa.edu/writing-children-young-adults/faculty-staff
  9. ↑ Publisher's Weekly, Interview with Elizabeth Partridge, http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/3796-q-a-with-elizabeth-partridge.html

External links

Elizabeth Partridge at Library of Congress Authorities, with 17 catalog records

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