Elizabeth Partridge is the author of seventeen books, including Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam, and Marching to Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary. She’s also written biographies on Dorothea Lange, Woody Guthrie, and John Lennon. Her books have received many honors, including National Book Award Finalist, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Michael L. Printz Honor, SCBWI Golden Kite Award, School Library Journal’s Battle of the Books, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.

Elizabeth Partridge graduated with a degree in Women’s Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and later studied traditional Chinese medicine. She was an acupuncturist for more than twenty years before closing her medical practice to write full-time.

Elizabeth lives in a messy, exuberant three-generation household in Berkeley. Fortunately, one room is her office, and when she closes the door, no one bothers her and she can work on her next book.