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American children's book author

This article is about the American children's author. For the British modernist author, see Virginia Woolf.

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For the British rock band, see Virginia Wolf.

Virginia Euwer Wolff (born August 25, ) is an American author of children's literature.^[1][2] Her award-winning series Make Lemonade features a year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a year-old single mother.

There are three books. The second, True Believer, won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.^[3] The second and third, This Full House (), garnered Kirkus Reviews starred reviews.^[a] She was the recipient of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, honoring her entire body of work.^[4]

Biography

Virginia Euwer Wolff was born in Portland, Oregon in She grew up in a log house with no electricity, on an apple and pear orchard.^[5] In , she began violin le