Elizabeth Winthrop is the author of over fifty works of fiction, most recently the highly
acclaimed historical novel
Counting on Grace.
Her book was inspired by an iconic photograph
by great child-labor photographer Lewis Hine, of a 12-year-old girl named Addie in North
Pownal, Vermont in 1910.
Counting on Grace has
received rave reviews and has been selected by the state of Vermont as its 2007 Community
Read.
Author Elizabeth Winthrop tells how children can develop their own writing talent. "I always tell the kids that by the time you are twelve years old, you'll have all the memories you need to write a hundred books," she says.
Ms. Winthrop is the author of Island Justice and more than fifty other books for children and adults. She hails from a family of writers including Theodore Roosevelt and his cousin Franklin, the subject of her novel, Dear Mr. President.
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