Rita Williams-Garcia

Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia
	Williams-Garcia in 2014.
Period	1980–2016
Website
	www.ritawg.com

Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) is an American writer of novels for children and young adults. In 2010, her novel Jumped was a National Book Award finalist. She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award,^[1] Coretta Scott King Award,^[2]^[3] and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction^[4] for her book One Crazy Summer. She has won the PEN/Norma Klein Award.^[5]^[6] Her 2013 book, P.S. Be Eleven, was a Junior Literary Guild selection, a New York Times Editors Choice Book,^[7] and won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2014.^[8] In 2016 her book Gone Crazy in Alabama won the Coretta Scott King Award. In 2017, her book Clayton Byrd Goes Underground was a finalist for the National Book Award for young people's literature.^[9]

Life

Williams-Garcia was born in Queens, New York. Her father was in the military. She graduated from Hofstra University in 1980. At Hofstra, she studied with Richard Price and Sonya Pilcer. She lives in Jamaica, New York. She taught for many years at Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[7]

Awards and accomplishments

Book	Date Published	Awards
One Crazy Summer	2011	2011 Coretta Scott King Award Winner 2011 Newbery Honor Book 2011 Scott O’Dell Prize for Historical Fiction 2010 National Book Award Finalist Junior Library Guild Selection Texas Library Association Best Book for 2010
No Laughter Here	2004	2004-BOOKLIST’s Top 10 Black History Titles for Youth
Jumped	2009	Booklist Youth Editors’ Choice National Book Award Finalist
Every Time a Rainbow Dies	2001	2003 Silver Kiss (Bologna Children's Book Fair) 2003-4 Kentucky Blue Grass List 2003-4 Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award Master List 2002-3 Texas Library Assoc. YA Roundtable List 2002 ALA Best Books 2002 ALA Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults 2002 Children’s Literature Choice List 2002 New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Blue Tights	1987	1991 PEN/Norma Klein Citation (w/FastTalk on a Slow Track) 1989 Youth Advisory Board “A List for Imagination and Survival” 1989 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 1988 Recommended list for the National Conference of Christians and Jews 1988 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (YALSA) 1988 Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices
Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee	2000	2001 Bank Street College Best Children’s Books for the Year
Fast Talk on a Slow Track	1991	1991 PEN/Norma Klein Citation 1991 Best Book for Young Adults (American Library Association) 1991 Parents’ Choice Honors for Storytelling 1992 Recommended list for the National Conference of Christians and Jews 1992 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (YALSA)
Like Sisters on the Homefront	1995	LA Best Book of the Decade 1997 PEN\Norma Klein Honor 1997 Texas Library Assoc. YA Roundtable List 1996 Coretta Scott King Honor Book 1995 Best Books – School Library Journal 1995 Best Books – Publishers Weekly 1995 Best Books – American Library Association 1995 Books Recommended for Reluctant Readers – ALA 1995 Horn Books Fanfare Award 1996 CBC Notable in the Field of Social Studies- NCSS

References

↑ "Newbery Medal Home Page". Association for Library Service to Children. 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-17.^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ "Coretta Scott King Book Awards". American Library Association. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-04-06. Retrieved 2011-04-17.
↑ "Press Releases | News & Press Center". Americanlibrariesmagazine.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
↑ "Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction". Scott O'Dell Committee. 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-17.^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ Rita Williams-Garcia (2010-03-24). "Rita Williams-Garcia from HarperCollins Publishers". Harpercollins.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
↑ "Rita Williams-Garcia", PEN American Center, Archived August 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 "In Focus: Rita Williams-Garcia - Hofstra College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Hofstra University". Hofstra.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
↑ And the Newbery, Caldecott award winners are ..., Ashley Strickland, CNN, January 27, 2014
↑ "2017 National Book Award finalists revealed". CBS News. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-04.

[1] "Newbery Medal Home Page". Association for Library Service to Children. 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-17.^{[permanent dead link]}

[ala-2] "Coretta Scott King Book Awards". American Library Association. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-04-06. Retrieved 2011-04-17.

[alm-3] "Press Releases | News & Press Center". Americanlibrariesmagazine.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2014-02-16.

[odell-4] "Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction". Scott O'Dell Committee. 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-17.^{[permanent dead link]}

[5] Rita Williams-Garcia (2010-03-24). "Rita Williams-Garcia from HarperCollins Publishers". Harpercollins.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-16.

[6] "Rita Williams-Garcia", PEN American Center, Archived August 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[Hofstra-7] 7.0 ^7.1 "In Focus: Rita Williams-Garcia - Hofstra College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Hofstra University". Hofstra.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-16.

[8] And the Newbery, Caldecott award winners are ..., Ashley Strickland, CNN, January 27, 2014

[:0-9] "2017 National Book Award finalists revealed". CBS News. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-04.

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