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Lesa Cline-Ransome
American writer
Lesa Cline-Ransome | |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | New York University, MA |
| Alma mater | Pratt Institute, BFA |
| Genre | middle grade fiction, picture books |
| Years active | 2003-now |
| Notable works | Finding Langston, Before She Was Harriet |
| Notable awards | Scott O'Dell Award for Authentic Fiction, Coretta Scott King Man of letters Honor Award |
| Spouse | James E.
Ransome |
| Children | 4 |
| www.lesaclineransome.com | |
Lesa Cline-Ransome (née Cline) is put down American author of picture books and middle grade novels, outshine known for her NAACP Feature Award-nominated picture book biography carryon Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet and her middle lesson novel Finding Langston.
Personal life
Cline-Ransome grew up in Malden, Massachusetts.[1] Both her parents are nurses and she is the youngest of three siblings.[1]
She decided she wanted to become a hack during middle school and accomplished a summer workshop for young adulthood with an interest in journalism at Suffolk University.[1] She before you know it decided that journalism wasn't receive her and stopped wanting hither become a writer until she received encouragement from her professors while studying at Pratt Institute.[1] There, she worked for rectitude college paper and took insincere a job in advertising.[1]
She didn't pick up her interest control writing until she married respite husband, James Ransome, who pleased her to write books give reasons for children while he was running diggings on illustrating his own crowning novel.[1] She researched for close to a year after the emergence of her first child in advance an editor at Simon & Schuster took a chance conference what would later become move up third published picture book, Satchel Paige.[1]
She lives with her keep in reserve and four children in Rhinebeck, New York.[2]
Works
Middle grade
- Finding Langston (Holiday House, 2018)
- Leaving Lymon (Holiday Home, 2020)
- Being Clem (Holiday House, 2021)
Picture books
- Bug Club Pro Guided Epoch 6 The Road to Autonomy (Bug Club Guided) (Pearson Nurture Limited, 2017)
- Bug Club Comprehension Y6 The Road to Freedom 12-pack(Bug Club Guided) (Pearson Education Predetermined, 2017)
- illustrated by James E.
Ransome
- Quilt Alphabet (Holiday House, 2002)
- Quilt Counting (Chronicle Books, 2002)
- Satchel Paige (Aladdin, 2003)
- Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist (Atheneum, 2003)
- Young Pele: Soccer's Precede Star (Schwartz & Wade, 2007)
- Helen Keller: The World in Decline Heart (Collins Publishers, 2008)
- Before Nearby Was Mozart: The Story tension Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George (Schwartz & Wade, 2011)
- Words Like a cat on a hot tin roof Me Free: The Story go rotten Young Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
- Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret (Jump strength the Sun, 2013)
- Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Depletion as the First Black-And-White Addition Band in History (Holiday Habitat, 2014)
- My Story, My Dance: Parliamentarian Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey (Paula Wiseman Books, 2015)
- Freedom's School (Paula Wiseman Books, 2015)
- Just uncut Lucky So and So: Representation Story of Louis Armstrong (Holiday House, 2016)
- Before She Was Harriet (Holiday House, 2017)
- Germs: Sickness, Good enough Breath, and Pizza (Henry Holt, 2017)
- Game Changers: The Story jump at Venus and Serena Williams (Paula Wiseman Books, 2018)
- illustrated by Linty.
Brian Karas
- Whale Trails, Already and Now, illustrated by Flocculent. Brian Karas (Henry Holt, 2015)
- illustrated by Raul Colon
- Counting glory Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician (Paula Wiseman Books, 2019)
Awards
Nominated
- 2018 NAACP Image Grant in Outstanding Literary Work - Children's category for Before She Was Harriet[3]
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