Ann Rinaldi Explained
Ann Rinaldi (August 27, 1934 – July 1, 2021)[1] was an American journalist and young adult fiction author.[2] She was best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, Numbering All The Bones and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. She wrote more than forty novels, eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one of the best novels of the preceding twenty-five years, and later of the last one hundred years. She also wrote for the Dear America series.[3]
Her career, prior to being an author, was a newspaper columnist. She continued the column, called "The Trentonian", through much of her writing career. Her first published novel, Term Paper, was written in 1979.[4] [5]
Publications
Books
The Story of Tempe Wick (1991)
A Story About the Salem Witch Trials (1992)
A Story of the Boston Massacre (1993)
A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold (1994)
The Story of Phillis Wheatley (1996)
The American Revolution in the South (1998)
The Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys (1999)
A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family (2003),
- An Unlikely Friendship] A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley (2007),
- Come Juneteenth (2007),
- The Ever-After Bird (2007),
- The Letter Writer (2008),
- Juliet's Moon (2010),
Dear America
- My Heart Is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl (1999),
- The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim Boy (2000),
Quilt Trilogy
- A Stitch in Time (1994),
- Broken Days (1995),
- The Blue Door (1999),
Others
- Term Paper (1980),
- Promises Are for Keeping (1982),
- But in the Fall I'm Leaving (1985),
- Time Enough for Drums (1986),
- The Good Side of My Heart (1987),
- The Last Silk Dress (1988),
- Wolf by the Ears (1991),
- In My Father's House (1992),
- The Second Bend in the River (1997),
- Mine Eyes Have Seen (1997),
- Amelia's War (1999),
- The Education of Mary: A Little Miss of Color, 1832 (2000),
- Millicent's Gift (2002),
- Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave (2002),
- Numbering All the Bones (2002),
- Sarah's Ground (2004),
- Mutiny's Daughter (2004),
- Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey (2005),
- Brooklyn Rose (2005),
- The Color of Fire (2005),
- The Redheaded Princess (2008),
- My Vicksburg (2009),
- The Family Greene (2010),
- Book: The Last Full Measure. registration. Harcourt. 2010. 9780547389806. 501491732.
- Book: Leigh Ann's Civil War. Graphia. 2011. 9780547549996. 651912096.
- Book: My Vicksburg. Paw Prints. 2011. 9781451728446. 742507686.
Notes and References
- https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/86888-obituary-ann-rinaldi.html "Obituary: Ann Rinaldi"
- Web site: Maughan . Shannon . Obituary: Ann Rinaldi . 2024-02-21 . PublishersWeekly.com . en.
- Web site: Kelly . Katie . 2023-01-04 . Reading with a Critical Lens: Revisiting the “Dear America” series . 2024-02-21 . BookBuzz with Lester Laminack and Katie Kelly . en.
- "Ann Rinaldi" in Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. November 13, 2009. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- Vandergrift, Kay E. (January 17, 1999). "Learning about Ann Rinaldi". Rutgers University. Retrieved February 22, 2011.