Jacquelyn Mitchard's SUMMER SCRIBES series presents author Ellen Wittlinger

Authors on the Air presents Jacquelyn Mitchard's SUMMER SCRIBES series with guest author Ellen Wittlinger.  

Ellen Wittlinger is the author of seventeen YA and middle-grade novels. Her novel Hard Love won both a Printz Honor Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Her books have been on numerous ALA Best Books lists, Bank Street College of Education lists and state award lists. Ellen has won state awards in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Her work has been translated into many other languages including Turkish, Croatian and Korean. She has taught at Emerson College in Boston and in the Simmons College Writing for Children MFA program. Ellen's current release is LOCAL GIRL SWEPT AWAY. http://ellenwittlinger.com/wordpress/.

Jacquelyn Mitchard was born in Chicago. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was published in 1996, becoming the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and a number one New York Times bestseller. Eight other novels, four children's books and six young adult novels followed, including Two if By Sea, Still Summer, All We Know of Heaven, and The Breakdown Lane. Her work has won the Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award. A former daily newspaper reporter, Mitchard now is Editor-in-Chief of Merit Press, and frequently writes for such publications as Real Simple, Glamour,and Readers Digest. Her essays and short stories have been widely anthologized. An adjunct professor in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, she lives on Cape Cod with her family.

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