Elizabeth Partridge

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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). Her latest book is the middle grade novel, Dogtag Summer (Bloomsbury, 2011).

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.

Partridge is on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA in Writing for Children & 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.