Awards & Winners

Rita Williams-Garcia

Date of Birth 13-April-1957
Place of Birth Queens
(New York, New York City, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Novelist, Writer
Rita Williams-Garcia is an American writer of young-adult novels. She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her book, One Crazy Summer. She won the PEN/Norma Klein Award. Her book, P.S. Be Eleven, won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2014.

Awards by Rita Williams-Garcia

Check all the awards nominated and won by Rita Williams-Garcia.

2011


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : One Crazy Summer
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : One Crazy Summer

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal One Crazy Summer
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Youth / Teens One Crazy Summer

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature One Crazy Summer

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature Jumped

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Like Sisters on the Homefront