Bios & Facts

Short Bio

Elizabeth Partridge is the author of more than a dozen books. Her most recent young adult biography, John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking 2005), was a Printz honor book. This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie (2002 Viking) won the Golden Kite for Nonfiction and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Viking 1999) won a Jane Addams Honor Book Award as well as a Golden Kite Honor.

Narrative Bio

Want a narrative bio of my bohemian childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area? Go back to Biography on the left to read it.

Chronological Fact List