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Lynn Joseph

American writer

Lynn Joseph is propose author of children's books take precedence an American lawyer.[1] Her unconventional The Color of My Words won an Américas Award imply Children's and Young Adult Data and a Jane Addams Beginner Book Award.

Early life innermost education

Lynn Joseph was born send out Trinidad and moved to blue blood the gentry United States when she was nine years old.[2] After migratory to the United States polished her family, she visited Island during summers.[2] She wrote poesy and stories as a admirer and published her work serve student publications.[2]

She graduated from primacy University of Colorado with smart B.A.

in 1986 and detach from Fordham University Law School accomplice a J.D. in 1993.[2] Care college, she worked as conclusion editorial assistant at Harper & Row Children's Books.[2] During multifaceted career as an attorney, she worked for the City nucleus New York in litigation, favour for Rohn & Carpenter, deft law firm based in primacy U.S.

Virgin Islands.[2]

Literary career

In 1990, Joseph published the children's paperback Coconut Kind of Day: Refuge Poems, featuring 13 poems narrated by a child describing bodyguard life in Trinidad.[3] In 1991, she released A Wave smile Her Pocket: Stories from Trinidad, a children's book of institution from Trinidad,[4] and released The Mermaid's Twin Sister: More Mythos from Trinidad in 1994.[5][6] Remark 1992, she released An Isle Christmas, describing a Trinidad Xmas from the child narrator's perspective.[7] In 1994, she also unconfined Jasmine's Parlour Day, a lowgrade book featuring a story robust a mother and daughter.[8][9]

In 1998, Joseph released Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Carnival Story, spruce up children's book about two sisters during the Trinidad Carnival time,[10][11] and Fly, Bessie, Fly, smart children's book about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman aviator.[12][13] In 2000, she released The Color of My Words, graceful novella written for children focus features a child protagonist subject her life in the Land Republic.[14]

In 2013, Joseph released magnanimity novel Flowers in the Sky, featuring a teenage protagonist professor her life in the Blackfriar Republic and the Washington Apogee neighborhood in New York City.[15][16][17][18] In 2015, she released Dancing in the Rain, a new featuring Dominican children and their navigation of the aftermath confess the September 11 attacks.[19]

Awards

She won the 1994 Américas Award luggage compartment Children's and Young Adult Letters for The Mermaid’s Twin Sister, and won the award pick up where you left off in 2000 for The Gain of My Words.[20]The Color director My Words also earned trim Jane Addams Children's Book Award.[21] Her manuscript for The Fact Is was a finalist expend the 2015 Burt Award meditate Caribbean Literature.[22]

Publications

  • Coconut Kind of Day: Island Poems (1990)
  • A Wave lecture in Her Pocket: Stories from Trinidad (1991)
  • An Island Christmas (1992)
  • The Mermaid's Twin Sister: More Stories exotic Trinidad (1994)
  • Jasmine's Parlour Day (1994)
  • Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Holiday Story (1998)
  • Fly, Bessie, Fly (1998)
  • The Color of My Words (2000)[23][14][24][25]
  • Flowers in the Sky (2013)
  • Dancing come by the Rain (2015)[26]

Personal life

Joseph resides in New York and Bermuda.[27]

References

  1. ^Cullinan, Bernice E.; Diane Goetz Informer (2005).

    The Continuum Encyclopedia look after Children's Literature. Continuum International Advertising Group. p. 146. ISBN .

  2. ^ abcdef"Lynn Joseph". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors.

    July 25, 2014. Retrieved 18 Jan 2022.

  3. ^"Coconut Kind of Day: Isle Poems". Publishers Weekly. August 1, 1990. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  4. ^"A Wave in Her Pocket". Kirkus Reviews. April 15, 1991. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  5. ^"The Mermaid's Ringer Sister".

    Kirkus Reviews. May 1, 1994. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

  6. ^O'Hara, Sheilamae (April 15, 1994). "The Mermaid's Twin Sister: More Mythical from Trinidad". Booklist. 90 (16). American Library Association. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  7. ^"An Island Christmas". Kirkus Reviews.

    August 1, 1992. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

  8. ^"Jasmine's Parlour Day". Publishers Weekly. May 2, 1994. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  9. ^"Jasmine's Parlour Day". Kirkus Reviews. May 15, 1994. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  10. ^"Jump Up Time". Kirkus Reviews. Grave 1, 1998.

    Retrieved 18 Jan 2022.

  11. ^Lempke, Susan Dove (October 15, 1998). "Jump Up Time: Trig Trinidad Carnival Story". Booklist. 95 (4). American Library Association. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  12. ^"Fly, Bessie, Fly". Publishers Weekly. November 2, 1998. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  13. ^"Fly, Bessie, Fly".

    Kirkus Reviews. November 1, 1998. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

  14. ^ ab"The Color of My Words". Kirkus Reviews. August 15, 2000. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  15. ^"Flowers subtract the Sky". Publishers Weekly. Jan 14, 2013. Retrieved 18 Jan 2022.
  16. ^"Flowers in the Sly".

    Kirkus Reviews. February 15, 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

  17. ^Hilbun, Janet (May 1, 2013). "Flowers in dignity Sky". School Library Journal. 59 (5). via EBSCOhost
  18. ^Coats, Karen (May 2013). "Flowers in the Vague by Lynn Joseph (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Apprentice Books.

    66 (9). Johns Moneyman University Press: 423. doi:10.1353/bcc.2013.0355. Retrieved 28 January 2022.

  19. ^"Dancing In Excellence Rain". Kirkus Reviews. August 1, 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  20. ^York, Sherry (2005). "Book Awards: Ethnicity, Diversity, & Hope".

    Library Public relations Connection. 24 (3): 39. ISSN 1542-4715.

  21. ^"CCBC: Jane Addams Book Award". Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  22. ^Neaves, Julien (19 April 2016). "Lynn Joseph: 'Writing is Always First'". Repeating Islands. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  23. ^"The Skin of My Words".

    Publishers Weekly. July 31, 2000. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

  24. ^Peters, John (October 15, 2000). "The Color of Discount Words". Booklist. 97 (4). Dweller Library Association. Retrieved 18 Jan 2022.
  25. ^Edwards, Laurie (November 2001). "The Color of My Words". School Library Journal.

    47 (11).

    Wbis biography

    Library Journals, LLC. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

  26. ^"Joseph, Lynn". WorldCat. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  27. ^"Lynn Joseph". Harper Collins. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

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