Awards & Winners

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Date of Birth 25-August-1937
Place of Birth Portland
(Oregon, United States of America, Area code 503, Area code 971)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Author, Novelist
Virginia Euwer Wolff is an American author of children's literature. Her award-winning series Make Lemonade features a 14-year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17-year-old single mother. There are three books. The second, True Believer, won the 2001 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The second and third, This Full House, garnered Kirkus starred reviews. Wolff was born in Portland, Oregon. She attended the girls' school St. Helen's Hall and Smith College. She married Arthur Richard Wolff in 1959. They divorced in 1976.

Awards by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Check all the awards nominated and won by Virginia Euwer Wolff.

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award True Believer

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children True Believer
Michael L. Printz Award True Believer
Honor Book

2001


National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Honored for : True Believer

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature True Believer

1999


Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children
Honored for : Bat 6

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children Bat 6