Virginia Euwer Wolff (edit name/settings)

Virginia Euwer Wolff is a prize-winning American author of children's literature, born in Portland, Oregon 25 Aug 1937. She attended Oregon Episcopal School, at that time only an all girls school called St. Helen's Hall, before attending Smith College. She married Arthur Richard Wolff in 1959. They divorced in 1976.

Among other notable books, she is the author of the award-winning series, Make Lemonade. Make Lemonade is a series about a 14-year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17-year-old single mother. The series has three books. The sequel, True Believer, won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.