![]() ![]() More than 15 novels followed, including Hard Love (Simon and Schuster) which received a Printz Honor. In 1993, inspired by what she had been reading, she penned her first YA novel, Lombardo’s Law (Houghton Mifflin) which told the story of a shy teenager encountering romance for the very first time. There, she immersed herself in YA literature so that she could better direct young students to books that best suited their interests. She later moved to Boston and began writing plays, several of which were given readings in Boston and New York, but then took a turn toward writing for young adults after working as a children’s librarian at the public library near her home in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Her two years as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown were especially important in her development as a writer, and she came to consider the Outer Cape as her spiritual home. Not long after getting an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, she published her first book, a poetry collection for adults called Breakers (Sheep Meadow Press). ![]() ![]() She was 74.Įllen grew up an avid reader and devoted poet, filling her childhood notebooks with stories and poems. ![]() The SCBWI is mourning the loss of beloved poet, playwright, and author, Ellen Wittlinger, who passed away November 17 following a battle with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. ![]()
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