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 young adult novel Jumped was a National Book Award finalist for Young People's Literature. 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 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, where she studied with Richard Price and . She lives in Jamaica, New York. She taught for many years at Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[7]

Works[]

• Blue Tights, Lodestar Books, 1988, ISBN 978-0-525-67234-0
• Fast Talk on a Slow Track, Dutton, 1991, ISBN 978-0-525-67334-7; reprint, Paw Prints, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4352-7952-0
• Like Sisters on the Homefront, Lodestar Books, 1995, ISBN 978-0-525-67465-8; reprint, Paw Prints, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4352-4403-0
• Every Time a Rainbow Dies. HarperCollins Publishers. 2001. ISBN 978-0-06-029202-7.; reprint, HarperCollins, 2002, ISBN 978-0-06-447303-3
• No Laughter Here. HarperCollins. 2004. ISBN 978-0-688-16247-4.; reprint HarperCollins, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-440992-6
• Jumped. HarperCollins. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-076091-5. Rita Williams-Garcia.; reprint, HarperCollins, 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-076093-9
• One Crazy Summer. HarperCollins. 2010. ISBN 978-0-06-076088-5. Rita Williams-Garcia.
• P.S. Be Eleven, 2013, ISBN 0061938629
• Gone Crazy in Alabama, 2015
• Bottle Cap Boys: Dancing on Royal Street, 2015
• Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, 2017
• A Sitting in St. James, published in May 2021 by Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books, ISBN 0062367293

References[]

External links[]

• "Warning: Characters May Appear As They Are or Why I Write Realistic Fiction", Hunger Mountain
• "Author Interview: Rita Williams-Garcia on Jumped", Cynsations, March 27, 2009
• "Learning About Rita Williams-Garcia", Rutgers
• Mélina Mangal, Rita Williams-Garcia, Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2003, ISBN 978-1-58415-217-0
• Rita Williams-Garcia at Library of Congress Authorities, with 10 catalog records