This article is about the American children's author. For the British modernist author, see Virginia Woolf. For the British rock band, see Virginia Wolf.
Virginia Euwer Wolff was born in Portland, Oregon in 1937. She grew up in a log house with no electricity, on an apple and pear orchard.[5] In 1945, she began violin lessons, which fomented her love of music.[6] She attended the girls' school St. Helen's Hall (now Oregon Episcopal School) and Smith College. She married Arthur Richard Wolff in 1959. They divorced in 1976.
In 2003, St. Helen's Hall honored Wolff with a Distinguished Alumna Award. She has lived in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., but now reads, writes, and plays chamber music in Oregon.[7]
She is currently writing an untitled fiction book, covering themes such as war, travel and peace. The characters are written to be brave, foolish and goofy. They also "Do not know what a Kardashian is".[8]
Books
This Full House First ed. New York: HarperCollins Children's Books 2009. ISBN978-0-06-158304-9 — concluding the Lemonade trilogy
Award: 2011 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association as the best English-language children's book that did not a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier. That is named for the mythical bird phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes, to suggest the book's rise from obscurity.[10]
Probably Still Nick Swansen. First ed. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1988.
^Kirkus Reviews of the three Lemonade novels (above) recommended them for readers age 10+, 12–16, and 13–15, and stated or implied that the heroine is 14, 15, and 17 years old. Evidently they compose a realist "coming-of-age" trilogy featuring an underprivileged urban girl.
