American writer (born 1951)
Elizabeth Partridge (born September 1, 1951) is an American writer, the author of more than a dozen books from young-adult nonfiction to picture books to photography books. Her books include "Marching for Freedom" (2009, Viking), as well the biographies "John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth" (Viking, 2005), "This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie" (Viking, 2002), and "Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange" (Viking, 1999).
Partridge is the daughter of photographer Rondal Partridge and the granddaughter of photographer Imogen Cunningham and etcher Roi Partridge.
Partridge has been a National Book Award finalist, an ALA Michael L. Printz Award runner-up, and twice a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award runner-up. She has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award, and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. In 2023, she won the Sibert Medal for her book "Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration".
Partridge is on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA in Writing for Children &amp; Young Adults. She chaired the National Book Award Committee for Young People's Literature in 2007 and has served on the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Committee and the SCBWI Golden Kite Award committee.
"Restless Spirit: the Life and Work of Dorothea Lange" (Viking, 1998)
"This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie" (Viking, 2002)
"John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth" (Viking, 2005)
"Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary" (Viking 2009)
"Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" (Viking, 2018)
"Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration" (
"Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life" (Smithsonian University Press, 1993)
"Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge" (Heyday Press, 2003)
"Clara and the Hoodoo Man". (Dutton Children's Books, 1996)
"Dogtag Summer". (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2011)
"Pigs Eggs", Illustrated by Martha Weston. (Globe Books, 2000)
"Oranges on Golden Mountain", Illustrated by Aki Sogabi. (Dutton Children's Books, 2002) 
"Moon Glowing", Illustrated by Joan Paley.(Dutton Children's Books, 2002) 
"Kogi's Mysterious Journey", Illustrated by Aki Sogabi. (Dutton Children's Books, 2003) 
"Whistling", Illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines. (Harper Collins, 2003) 
"Big Cat Pepper", Illustrated by Lauren Castille. (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2009)
"Looking for America," Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places. (Viking, 2003)
"This Was America, 1960," John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address. (Viking, 2010)
Awards and honors.
"Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary"
"John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth"
"This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie"
"Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange"
"Kogi's Mysterious Journey"
"Clara and the Hoodoo Man"
"Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration"
References.
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External links.
Elizabeth Partridge at Library of Congress, with 17 