Ann Rinaldi

Ann Rinaldi (born August 27, 1934 in New York City) is an American young-adult fiction author. She is best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, "Numbering All The Bones" and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. She has written a total of more than forty novels, eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one of the best novels of the preceding twenty-five years, and later of the last one hundred years. She also writes for the Dear America series.

Her career, prior to being an author, was a newspaper columnist. She continued the column, called "The Trentonian", through much of her writing career. Her first published novel, Term Paper, was written in 1979.

Publications

Episodes

• A Ride into Morning: The Story of Tempe Wick (1991)
• A Break with Charity: A Story About the Salem Witch Trials (1992)
• The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre (1993)
• Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold (1994)
• The Secret of Sarah Revere (1995)
• Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley (1996)
• An Acquaintance with Darkness (1997)
• Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South (1998)
• The Coffin Quilt: The Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys (1999)
• The Staircase (2000)
• Girl in Blue (2001)
• Numbering all the Bones A Story about a young African American slave and her experience at the end of the civil war"(2002)
• Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family (2003), ISBN 0-15-216687-4
• An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley (2007), ISBN 0-15-205597-5
• Come Juneteenth (2007), ISBN 0-15-205947-4
• The Ever-After Bird (2007), ISBN 0-15-202620-7
• The Letter Writer (2008)

Dear America

• My Heart Is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl (1999), ISBN 0-590-14922-9
• The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim Boy (2000), ISBN 0-590-51078-9

Quilt Trilogy

• A Stitch in Time (1994), ISBN 0-590-46056-0
• Broken Days (1995), ISBN 0-590-46054-4
• The Blue Door (1999), ISBN 0-590-46052-8

Others

• Term Paper (1980), ISBN 0-8027-6395-2
• Promises Are for Keeping (1982), ISBN 0-8027-6442-8
• But in the Fall I'm Leaving (1985), ISBN 0-8234-0560-5
• Time Enough for Drums (1986), ISBN 0-8234-0603-2
• The Good Side of My Heart (1987), ISBN 0-8234-0648-2
• The Last Silk Dress (1988), ISBN 0-8234-0690-3
• Wolf by the Ears (1991), ISBN 0-590-43413-6
• In My Father's House (1992), ISBN 0-590-44730-0
• The Second Bend in the River (1997), ISBN 0-590-74258-2
• Mine Eyes Have Seen (1997), ISBN 0-590-54318-0
• Amelia's War (1999), ISBN 0-590-11744-0
• The Education of Mary: A Little Miss of Color, 1832 (2000), ISBN 0-7868-0532-3
• Girl in Blue (2001), ISBN 0-439-07336-7
• Millicent's Gift (2002), ISBN 0-06-029636-4
• Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave (2002), ISBN 0-689-85187-1
• Numbering All the Bones (2002), ISBN 0-7868-0533-1
• Sarah's Ground (2004), ISBN 0-689-85924-4
• Mutiny's Daughter (2004), ISBN 0-06-029638-0
• Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey (2005), ISBN 0-06-054923-8
• Brooklyn Rose (2005), ISBN 0-15-205117-1
• The Color of Fire (2005), ISBN 0-7868-0938-8
• The Redheaded Princess (2008), ISBN 0-06-073374-8
• My Vicksburg (2009)

External links

• Ann Rinaldi at Library of Congress Authorities, with 59 catalog records