About Tanya
This award-winning author writes nonfiction that is as gripping as fiction. Her books reveal little-known stories of history. She also writes poetry and fiction.
Tanya Lee Stone
Known for telling little-known true stories of extraordinary people who have shaped our world, Tanya Lee Stone has threaded themes of female empowerment throughout her body of work for nearly 20 years, writing narrative nonfiction as gripping as fiction. Stone is the author of the Sibert Medal winning Almost Astronauts, NAACP Image Award winning Courage Has No Color, and Golden Kite Award winning The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie. Other works include Girl Rising, Elizabeth Leads the Way, Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?, The House that Jane Built, Sandy’s Circus, and Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented. Her work has been recognized by the Bank Street Flora Straus Steiglitz Award, Jane Addams Honor, YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, NPR Best Books, and NCTE Orbis Pictus Honors. Stone also writes poetry and fiction and is the author of A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, which is #42 on ALA’s Top 100 Banned Books of the Decade.
In addition to becoming a writer, Stone studied English at Oberlin College, earned a Masters Degree in Science Education, a PhD in Creative Writing, and was an editor of children’s nonfiction books for many years. She is the Program Director of the Professional Writing Program at Champlain College, in Burlington, Vermont.
Books That Make Waves
Known for telling overlooked true stories of extraordinary people who have shaped our world, Tanya Lee Stone has threaded themes of female empowerment throughout her body of award-winning work for nearly 20 years.
