Virginia Euwer Wolff is an American author of children's literature. Her award-winning series Make Lemonade features a 14-year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17-year-old single mother. There are three books. The second, True Believer, won the 2001 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The second and third, This Full House, garnered Kirkus starred reviews. She was the recipient of the 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. Wolff was born in Portland, Oregon. She attended the girls' school St. Helen's Hall and Smith College. She married Arthur Richard Wolff in 1959. They divorced in 1976. 

August 25th, 1937 in Portland (Age 87)