Tricia Springstubb (born September 15, 1950,
New York City
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, U.S.) is an American writer of
children's
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,
middle grade
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, and
young adult literature
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. She has also published work in literary magazines.
Springstubb is also a critic who writes for ''
The Plain Dealer
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''.
Biography
Tricia Springstubb was born on September 15, 1950 in
New York City
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, U.S. She graduated from
University at Albany, SUNY
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.
Springstubb lives in
Cleveland Heights
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,
Ohio
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with her husband. She has three daughters.
Bibliography
* (1980). ''My Minnie is a Jewel''. United States: Carolrhoda Books.
* (1981). ''The Blueberry Troll''. United States: Carolrhoda Books.
* (1981). ''Give and Take''. United States: Little, Brown.
* (1982). ''The Moon on a String: A Novel''. United States: Little, Brown.
* (1982). ''The Magic Guinea Pig''. United States: W. Marrow.
* (1984). ''Which Way to the Nearest Wilderness?''. United States: Little, Brown.
* (1987). ''Eunice Gottlieb and the Unwhitewashed Truth about Life''. United States: Delacorte Press.
* (1988). ''Eunice (the Egg Salad) Gottlieb''. United States: Delacorte Press.
* (1989). ''With a Name Like Lulu, who Needs More Trouble?''. Bulgaria: Delacorte Press.
* (1989). ''Why Can't Life be a Piece of Cake?''. United Kingdom: HarperCollins Publishers Limited.
* (1990). ''Lulu Vs. Love''. United States: Delacorte Press.
* (1991). ''Two Plus One Makes Trouble''. United States: Scholastic.
* (1993). ''Cleveland for Kids''. United States: Cleveland Arts Consortium.
* (1993). ''Pet Sitters Plus Five''. United States: Little Apple.
* (1995). ''Two Plus One Goes A.P.E.''. United States: Scholastic.
* (2002). ''The Vietnamese Americans''. United States: Lucent Books.
* (2010). ''What Happened on Fox Street''. United States: Balzer + Bray.
* (2016). ''Every Single Second''. United States: Balzer + Bray. With Sudyka, D.
* (2011). ''Mo Wren, Lost and Found''. United States: HarperCollins.
* (2013). ''Phoebe and Digger''. United States: Candlewick Press.
* (2015). ''Moonpenny Island''. United States: Balzer + Bray. Illustrated by Gilbert Ford.
* (2015). ''Cody and the Fountain of Happiness''. United States: Candlewick Press. Illustrated by
Eliza Wheeler.
* (2017). ''Cody and the Mysteries of the Universe''. United States: Candlewick Press.
* (2017)''. Cody and the Rules of Life''. United States: Candlewick Press.
* (2018). ''Cody and the Heart of a Champion''. United States: Candlewick Press
* (2020). ''Khalil and Mr. Hagerty and the Backyard Treasures''. United States: Candlewick Press.
* (2021) ''The Most Perfect Thing in the Universe''.
* (2022) ''Looking for True''. United States: Margaret Ferguson Books
Awards and nominations
In November 2009, she received the
Iowa Review Prize for fiction for her story ''In the Dark''.
Springstubb was profiled as one of
Cleveland Magazine
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's Most Interesting People in 2011.
See also
References
External links
Personal websiteCriticism for ''The Plain Dealer'' (Cleveland, Ohio)
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Living people
1950 births
Writers from Cleveland
Writers from New York City
American children's writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
Women children's writers