Virginia Euwer Wolff (born August 25, 1937) is an American author of children's literature.
Her award-winning series Make Lemonade features a 14-year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17-year-old single mother. There are three books. The second, True Believer, won the 2001 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
The second and third, This Full House (2009), garnered Kirkus Reviews starred reviews. She was the recipient of the 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, honoring her entire body of work.
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. In 1945, she began violin lessons, which encouraged her love of music. 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.
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".
This Full House First ed. New York: HarperCollins Children's Books 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-158304-9 — concluding the Lemonade trilogy
Kirkus Review (starred) 02/01/2009
True Believer First ed. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. ISBN 0-689-85288-6 — sequel to Make Lemonade
Kirkus Review (starred) 02/01/2001
Award: 2001 National Book Award, Young People's Literature (U.S.)
Award: Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly.
Junior Library Guild Selection
Top Ten Book of the Year from the Young Adult Library Services Association
Bat 6 Henry Holt and Co., 1998 ISBN 0-03-066279-6
Oregon Reads 2009 Archived November 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Selection
Make Lemonade. First ed., Henry Holt and Co., 1993 (and many other editions)
Citation: American Library Association Notable Children's Book