Ann Rinaldi
American author (1934–2021)
Ann Rinaldi (August 27, 1934 – July 1, 2021)[ 1] was an American journalist and young adult fiction author.[ 2] She was best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House , The Last Silk Dress , An Acquaintance with Darkness , A Break with Charity , Numbering All The Bones and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons .[ 3] [ 4] She wrote more than forty novels(54 to be exact), eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA . In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one of the best novels of the preceding twenty-five years, and later of the last one hundred years. She also wrote for the Dear America series.[ 5]
Her career, prior to being an author, was a newspaper columnist. She continued the column, called "The Trentonian", through much of her writing career. Her first published novel , Term Paper , was written in 1979.[ 3] [ 4]
Publications
Books
Dear America
Quilt Trilogy
Others
Term Paper (1980), ISBN 0-8027-6395-2
Promises Are for Keeping (1982), ISBN 0-8027-6442-8
But in the Fall I'm Leaving (1985), ISBN 0-8234-0560-5
Time Enough for Drums (1986), ISBN 0-8234-0603-2
The Good Side of My Heart (1987), ISBN 0-8234-0648-2
The Last Silk Dress (1988), ISBN 0-8234-0690-3
Wolf by the Ears (1991), ISBN 0-590-43413-6
In My Father's House (1992), ISBN 0-590-44730-0
The Second Bend in the River (1997), ISBN 0-590-74258-2
Mine Eyes Have Seen (1997), ISBN 0-590-54318-0
Amelia's War (1999), ISBN 0-590-11744-0
The Education of Mary: A Little Miss of Color, 1832 (2000), ISBN 0-7868-0532-3
Millicent's Gift (2002), ISBN 0-06-029636-4
Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave (2002), ISBN 0-689-85187-1
Numbering All the Bones (2002), ISBN 0-7868-0533-1
Sarah's Ground (2004), ISBN 0-689-85924-4
Mutiny's Daughter (2004), ISBN 0-06-029638-0
Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey (2005), ISBN 0-06-054923-8
Brooklyn Rose (2005), ISBN 0-15-205117-1
The Color of Fire (2005), ISBN 0-7868-0938-8
The Redheaded Princess (2008), ISBN 0-06-073374-8
My Vicksburg (2009), ISBN 9780152066246
The Family Greene (2010), ISBN 9780547260679
The Last Full Measure . Harcourt. 2010. ISBN 9780547389806 . OCLC 501491732 .
Leigh Ann's Civil War . Graphia. 2011. ISBN 9780547549996 . OCLC 651912096 .
My Vicksburg . Paw Prints. 2011. ISBN 9781451728446 . OCLC 742507686 .
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