Virginia Euwer Wolff

Virginia Euwer Wolff is an American author of novels for teenagers and young readers. Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up near Mount Hood and studied at Smith College. She later returned to Oregon and taught high school, and she is also an accomplished violinist who has played in orchestras and chamber groups in Portland.

Her first novel for young readers, Probably Still Nick Swansen (1988), was followed by The Mozart Season (1991), about a young violinist. Make Lemonade (1993) introduced LaVaughn, a teenager working toward a better future, and its sequel, True Believer (2001), won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and received a Printz Honor. The trilogy concluded with This Full House (2009). Her novel Bat 6 (1998) was chosen for Oregon's statewide reading program.

Wolff's books, several of them written in short, rhythmic lines, pay close attention to the voices of young people and the choices they face as they grow up.