Lynn Joseph Explained

Lynn Joseph
Genre:Children's books

Lynn Joseph is an author of children's books and an American lawyer.[1] Her novella The Color of My Words won an Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award.

Early life and education

Lynn Joseph was born in Trinidad and moved to the United States when she was nine years old.[2] After moving to the United States with her family, she visited Trinidad during summers.[2] She wrote poems and stories as a student and published her work in student publications.[2]

She graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in 1986 and from Fordham University Law School with a J.D. in 1993.[2] After college, she worked as an editorial assistant at Harper & Row Children's Books.[2] During her career as an attorney, she worked for the City of New York in litigation, and for Rohn & Carpenter, a law firm based in the U.S. Virgin Islands.[2]

Literary career

In 1990, Joseph published the children's book Coconut Kind of Day: Island Poems, featuring 13 poems narrated by a child describing her life in Trinidad.[3] In 1991, she released A Wave in Her Pocket: Stories from Trinidad, a children's book of folklore from Trinidad,[4] and released The Mermaid's Twin Sister: More Stories from Trinidad in 1994.[5] [6] In 1992, she released An Island Christmas, describing a Trinidad Christmas from the child narrator's perspective.[7] In 1994, she also released Jasmine's Parlour Day, a children's book featuring a story of a mother and daughter.[8] [9]

In 1998, Joseph released Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Carnival Story, a children's book about two sisters during the Trinidad Carnival time,[10] [11] and Fly, Bessie, Fly, a children's book about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman aviator.[12] [13] In 2000, she released The Color of My Words, a novella written for children that features a child protagonist and her life in the Dominican Republic.[14]

In 2013, Joseph released the novel Flowers in the Sky, featuring a teenage protagonist and her life in the Dominican Republic and the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City.[15] [16] [17] [18] In 2015, she released Dancing in the Rain, a novel featuring Dominican children and their navigation of the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[19]

Awards

She won the 1994 Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature for The Mermaid’s Twin Sister, and won the award again in 2000 for The Color of My Words.[20] The Color of My Words also earned a Jane Addams Children's Book Award.[21] Her manuscript for The Truth Is was a finalist for the 2015 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature.[22]

Publications

Personal life

Joseph resides in New York and Bermuda.[27]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Cullinan, Bernice E. . The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature . Diane Goetz Person . 146 . 2005 . . 978-0-8264-1778-7 .
  2. News: Lynn Joseph . 18 January 2022 . Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors . July 25, 2014.
  3. News: Coconut Kind of Day: Island Poems . 18 January 2022 . . August 1, 1990.
  4. News: A Wave in Her Pocket . 18 January 2022 . . April 15, 1991.
  5. News: The Mermaid's Twin Sister . 18 January 2022 . . May 1, 1994.
  6. O'Hara . Sheilamae . The Mermaid's Twin Sister: More Stories from Trinidad . . April 15, 1994 . 90 . 16 . 18 January 2022. American Library Association.
  7. News: An Island Christmas . 18 January 2022 . . August 1, 1992.
  8. News: Jasmine's Parlour Day . 18 January 2022 . . May 2, 1994.
  9. News: Jasmine's Parlor Day . 18 January 2022 . . May 15, 1994.
  10. News: Jump Up Time . 18 January 2022 . . August 1, 1998.
  11. Lempke . Susan Dove . Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Carnival Story . . October 15, 1998 . 95 . 4 . 18 January 2022 . American Library Association.
  12. News: Fly, Bessie, Fly . 18 January 2022 . . November 2, 1998.
  13. News: Fly, Bessie, Fly . 18 January 2022 . . November 1, 1998.
  14. News: The Color of My Words . 18 January 2022 . . August 15, 2000.
  15. News: Flowers in the Sky . 18 January 2022 . . January 14, 2013.
  16. News: Flowers in the Sly . 18 January 2022 . . February 15, 2013.
  17. Hilbun . Janet . Flowers in the Sky . . May 1, 2013 . 59 . 5. via EBSCOhost
  18. Coats . Karen . Flowers in the Sky by Lynn Joseph (review) . Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books . May 2013 . 66 . 9 . 423 . 10.1353/bcc.2013.0355 . 28 January 2022 . Johns Hopkins University Press.
  19. News: Dancing In The Rain . 18 January 2022 . . August 1, 2016.
  20. York . Sherry . Book Awards: Ethnicity, Diversity, & Hope . Library Media Connection . 2005 . 24 . 3 . 39 . 1542-4715.
  21. Web site: CCBC: Jane Addams Book Award. 13 January 2017.
  22. Web site: Lynn Joseph: 'Writing is Always First' . 19 April 2016 . Julien . Neaves . Repeating Islands . 17 January 2022.
  23. News: The Color of My Words . 18 January 2022 . . July 31, 2000.
  24. Peters . John . The Color of My Words . . October 15, 2000 . 97 . 4 . 18 January 2022 . American Library Association.
  25. Edwards . Laurie . The Color of My Words. . . November 2001 . 47 . 11 . 18 January 2022 . Library Journals, LLC.
  26. Web site: Joseph, Lynn. WorldCat. 2020-02-01.
  27. Web site: Lynn Joseph . Harper Collins . 2 January 2022.

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