Virginia Euwer Wolff
Virginia Euwer Wolff (born August 25, 1937) is an American author of children's literature. Her award-winning series "Make Lemonade" features a 14-year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17-year-old single mother. There are three books. The second, "True Believer", won the 2001 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The second and third, "This Full House" (2009), garnered "Kirkus Reviews" starred reviews. She was the recipient of the 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, honoring her entire body of work. Biography. Virginia Euwer Wolff  was born in Portland, Oregon in 1937. She grew up in a log house with no electricity, on an apple and pear orchard. In 1945, she began violin lessons, which fermented her love of music. She attended the girls' school St. Helen's Hall (now Oregon Episcopal School) and Smith College. She married Arthur Richard Wolff in 1959. They divorced in 1976. In 2003, St. Helen's Hall honored Wolff with a Distinguished Alumna Award. She has lived in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., but now reads, writes, and plays chamber music in Oregon.