Lesa Cline-Ransome

Agent: Rosemary Stimola

Lesa Cline-Ransome is the award-winning author of many critically acclaimed books for young readers, including Not Playing By The Rules: 21 Female Athletes Who Changed Sports, Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star, Before She Was Harriet, Overground Railroad, and Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams.

Her numerous honors include the Jane Addams Honor Award, the Christopher Award, Kirkus Best Book of the Year, SLJ Best Book of Year and three NAACP Image Award nominations. Her debut middle grade novel Finding Langston received the Coretta Scott King Author Honor and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The companion novel is Leaving Lymon.

She is currently an SCBWI board member and host of KidLitTV's Past Present: Giving Past Stories New Life.  She lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York with her family.

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