Virginia Euwer Wolff (born August 25, 1937) is an American author of children's literature.
[1][2] 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.
The second, True Believer, won the 2001 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
[a] She was the recipient of the 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, honoring her entire body of work.
She has lived in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., but now reads, writes, and plays chamber music in Oregon.