Elizabeth Letts
Elizabeth Letts is a #1 New York Times Bestselling American author.
Biography
Elizabeth Letts was born on June 23, 1961, in Houston, Texas. She grew up in Southern California. As a teenager, she was a competitive equestrian three-day eventer. She attended Northfield Mount Hermon School and Yale College where she majored in History. She served in the Peace Corps in Morocco.
She is the author of four books: Quality of Care, Family Planning, The Butter Man (as Elizabeth Alalou) and The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman the Horse that Inspired a Nation, a #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Today she lives with her husband and four children in Baltimore, Maryland. Her younger brother, John, is a retired professional tennis player.
Awards
The Eighty-Dollar Champion
- Goodreads Reader's Choice Finalist: Best History and Biography
The Butter Man
- Bank Street College's The Best Children's Books of the Year
- CCBC Choices Recommended Book
- Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended
- Children’s Africana Honor Book
- Junior Library Guild Selection
- Middle East Book Award
- NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
- Peace Corps Writers Award
- Storytelling World Award Honor Book for Young Listeners
Works
- Family Planning (NAL/Penguin)
- Quality of Care (NAL/Penguin)
- The Butter Man (Charlesbridge),
- The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation (Random House, Ballantine Books), 2011
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