Elizabeth Partridge
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This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Elizabeth Partridge
- 2002 Golden Kite-nonfiction winner
- 2002 Horn Book-nonfiction winner
- 2002 NBA–Youth finalist
- Score: 26.52
From the late 1920s to the 1950s, Guthrie wrote the words to more than three thousand songs, including “This Land Is Your Land,” a song many call America’s unofficial national anthem. With a remarkable ability to turn any experience into a song almost instantaneously, Woody Guthrie spoke out for people of all colors and races, setting an example for generations of musicians to come.
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth
Elizabeth Partridge
Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Partridge dives into Lennon’s life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid on Liverpool, deftly taking us through his turbulent childhood and his rebellious rock’n’roll teens to his celebrated life writing, recording, and performing music with the Beatles. She sheds light on the years after the Beatles, with Yoko Ono, as he struggled to make sense of his own artistic life—one that had turned from youthful angst to suffocating fame in almost a split second.
Partridge chronicles the emotional highs…
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
Elizabeth Partridge
A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms.
