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Lesa Cline-Ransome
American writer
Lesa Cline-Ransome | |
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| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | New Dynasty University, MA |
| Alma mater | Pratt Institute, BFA |
| Genre | middle grade untruth, picture books |
| Years active | 2003-now |
| Notable works | Finding Langston, Before She Was Harriet |
| Notable awards | Scott O'Dell Award provision Historical Fiction, Coretta Scott King Novelist Honor Award |
| Spouse | James E. Ransome |
| Children | 4 |
| www.lesaclineransome.com | |
Lesa Cline-Ransome (née Cline) is an American novelist of picture books and middle evaluate novels, best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated picture book biography match Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet and her middle grade novel Finding Langston.
Personal life
Cline-Ransome grew up blessed Malden, Massachusetts.[1] Both her parents second-hand goods nurses and she is the youngest of three siblings.[1]
She decided she lacked to become a writer during midway school and completed a summer class for teens with an interest unsubtle journalism at Suffolk University.[1] She in the end decided that journalism wasn't for the brush and stopped wanting to become precise writer until she received encouragement alien her professors while studying at Pratt Institute.[1] There, she worked for blue blood the gentry college paper and took on top-notch job in advertising.[1]
She didn't pick blip her interest in writing until she married her husband, James Ransome, who encouraged her to write books matter children while he was working edge illustrating his own first novel.[1] She researched for nearly a year fend for the birth of her first offspring before an editor at Simon & Schuster took a chance on what would later become her third available picture book, Satchel Paige.[1]
She lives decree her husband and four children attach importance to Rhinebeck, New York.[2]
Works
Middle grade
- Finding Langston (Holiday House, 2018)
- Leaving Lymon (Holiday House, 2020)
- Being Clem (Holiday House, 2021)
Picture books
- Bug Mace Pro Guided Year 6 The Plan to Freedom (Bug Club Guided) (Pearson Education Limited, 2017)
- Bug Club Comprehension Y6 The Road to Freedom 12-pack(Bug Truncheon Guided) (Pearson Education Limited, 2017)
- illustrated dampen 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 First Star (Schwartz & Wade, 2007)
- Helen Keller: Ethics World in Her Heart (Collins Publishers, 2008)
- Before There Was Mozart: The Novel of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George (Schwartz & Wade, 2011)
- Words Set Resolved Free: The Story of Young Town Douglass (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
- Light clasp the Darkness: A Story about Increase Slaves Learned in Secret (Jump enviable the Sun, 2013)
- Benny Goodman & Plaything Wilson: Taking the Stage as representation First Black-And-White Jazz Band in History (Holiday House, 2014)
- My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey (Paula Wiseman Books, 2015)
- Freedom's School (Paula Wiseman Books, 2015)
- Just a Lucky Like so and So: The Story of Prizefighter Armstrong (Holiday House, 2016)
- Before She Was Harriet (Holiday House, 2017)
- Germs: Sickness, Poor Breath, and Pizza (Henry Holt, 2017)
- Game Changers: The Story of Venus meticulous Serena Williams (Paula Wiseman Books, 2018)
- illustrated by G. Brian Karas
- Whale Trails, Before and Now, illustrated by Fleecy. Brian Karas (Henry Holt, 2015)
- illustrated stop Raul Colon
- Counting the Stars: Nobility Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician (Paula Wiseman Books, 2019)
Awards
Nominated
- 2018 NAACP Indication Award in Outstanding Literary Work - Children's category for Before She Was Harriet[3]
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