Awards & Winners

Blue Balliett

Date of Birth 1955
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Author
Blue Balliett was born in 1955 in New York. On her birth certificate it says Elizabeth. Blue is an American author, best known for her award-winning novel for children, Chasing Vermeer. Chasing Vermeer, released by Scholastic Press in 2004, is her best-known and most highly praised book. Illustrated by Brett Helquist, it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The book was a bestseller and won a number of accolades and awards, including the 2005 Edgar Award in the Best Juvenile category. A sequel, The Wright 3, was released in April, 2006, and a third, The Calder Game, was published two years later, in April 2008. The Danger Box was published in August 2010. Her latest book, "Hold Fast" was published in 2013. Balliett has also published two books of Nantucket ghost stories. Before releasing Chasing Vermeer, she taught third grade at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. During her tenure, she coordinated with NASA astronaut and University of Chicago alumnus John Grunsfeld to send her pupil's literature and creative artwork into space during a routine Hubble space telescope mission on the Columbia space shuttle.

Awards by Blue Balliett

Check all the awards nominated and won by Blue Balliett.

2005


Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature
Honored for : Chasing Vermeer
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile
Honored for : Chasing Vermeer

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Chasing Vermeer

2004