Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia is an American writer of young-adult novels.
She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her book, One Crazy Summer. She won the PEN/Norma Klein Award. Her 2013 book, P.S. Be Eleven, was a Junior Literary Guild selection, a New York Times Editors Choice Book, and won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2014. In 2016 her book Gone Crazy in Alabama won the Coretta Scott King Award. In 2017, her book Clayton Byrd Has Gone Underground is a finalist for the National Book Award for young people's literature.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 Sonya Pilcer. She lives in Jamaica, New York. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.Works
- Blue Tights, Lodestar Books, 1988,
- Fast Talk on a Slow Track, Dutton, 1991, ; reprint, Paw Prints, 2008,
- Like Sisters on the Homefront, Lodestar Books, 1995, ; reprint, Paw Prints, 2008,
- ; reprint, HarperCollins, 2002,
- ; reprint HarperCollins, 2007,
- ; reprint, HarperCollins, 2010,
- P.S. Be Eleven, 2013,
- Gone Crazy in Alabama, 2015
- Bottle Cap Boys: Dancing on Royal Street, 2015
- Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, 2017
