Virginia Euwer Wolff
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Virginia Euwer Wolffis 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, garnered Kirkus starred reviews. She was the recipient of the 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth25 August 1937
CountryUnited States of America
Rise to the occassion which is life!
I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.
No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.
Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.
After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.
My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.