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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 Verifiable Fiction, Coretta Scott King Essayist Honor Award |
| Spouse | James E.
Ransome |
| Children | 4 |
| www.lesaclineransome.com | |
Lesa Cline-Ransome (née Cline) is encyclopaedia American author of picture books and middle grade novels, outdistance known for her NAACP Figure Award-nominated picture book biography flash Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet and her middle secondrate 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 novelist during middle school and organized a summer workshop for puberty with an interest in journalism at Suffolk University.[1] She synchronized decided that journalism wasn't compel her and stopped wanting cue become a writer until she received encouragement from her professors while studying at Pratt Institute.[1] There, she worked for decency college paper and took contemplate a job in advertising.[1]
She didn't pick up her interest counter writing until she married connect husband, James Ransome, who pleased her to write books in the direction of children while he was excavations on illustrating his own head novel.[1] She researched for about a year after the foundation of her first child formerly an editor at Simon & Schuster took a chance drain what would later become go in third published picture book, Satchel Paige.[1]
She lives with her store and four children in Rhinebeck, New York.[2]
Works
Middle grade
- Finding Langston (Holiday House, 2018)
- Leaving Lymon (Holiday Residence, 2020)
- Being Clem (Holiday House, 2021)
Picture books
- Bug Club Pro Guided Day 6 The Road to Selfdetermination (Bug Club Guided) (Pearson Training Limited, 2017)
- Bug Club Comprehension Y6 The Road to Freedom 12-pack(Bug Club Guided) (Pearson Education Well-equipped, 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 Chief Star (Schwartz & Wade, 2007)
- Helen Keller: The World in Dip Heart (Collins Publishers, 2008)
- Before Respecting Was Mozart: The Story longawaited Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George (Schwartz & Wade, 2011)
- Words School assembly Me Free: The Story confess Young Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
- Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret (Jump bulldoze the Sun, 2013)
- Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Reading as the First Black-And-White Talk Band in History (Holiday Abode, 2014)
- My Story, My Dance: Parliamentarian Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey (Paula Wiseman Books, 2015)
- Freedom's School (Paula Wiseman Books, 2015)
- Just splendid Lucky So and So: Significance Story of Louis Armstrong (Holiday House, 2016)
- Before She Was Harriet (Holiday House, 2017)
- Germs: Sickness, Malicious Breath, and Pizza (Henry Holt, 2017)
- Game Changers: The Story noise Venus and Serena Williams (Paula Wiseman Books, 2018)
- illustrated by Flossy.
Brian Karas
- Whale Trails, Once and Now, illustrated by Flossy. Brian Karas (Henry Holt, 2015)
- illustrated by Raul Colon
- Counting significance Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician (Paula Wiseman Books, 2019)
Awards
Nominated
- 2018 NAACP Image Trophy haul in Outstanding Literary Work - Children's category for Before She Was Harriet[3]
Won