Ellen Wittlinger
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Ellen Wittlinger began her writing career after receiving fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center. She published her first book, a poetry collection, Breakers, in 1979. Wittlinger later worked as a librarian part-time with the Swampscott Public Library, which inspired her to focus her writing on children’s and young adult literature. She published her first novel, Lombardo’s Law, in 1993 and went on to write a total of seventeen YA and middle-grade novels. Her novel Hard Love won both a Printz Honor Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Her books have been on numerous ALA Best Books lists, Bank Street College of Education lists and state award lists. Ellen has won state awards in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Her work has been translated into many other languages including Turkish, Croatian and Korean. In addition to writing, Wittlinger taught at Emerson College in Boston and Simmons College Writing for Children MFA program.
Blind Faith | Gracie’s Girl | Hard Love | Heart on My Sleeve | Love & Lies | Parrotfish | Razzle | Sandpiper | What’s in a Name? | Zigzag
Blind Faith | Breakers: Poems | Gracie’s Girl | Hard Love | Heart on My Sleeve | Local Girl Swept Away | Lombardo’s Law | Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story | Noticing Paradise | Parrotfish | Razzle | Sandpiper | Saturdays with Hitchcock | Someone Else’s Shoes | The Long Night of Leo and Bree | This Means War! | What’s in a Name | Zigzag