Code Name Verity: Author Elizabeth Wein’s 2012 Fiction Honor Speech
by Elizabeth Wein As this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction winners show, we’re in the vanguard of a kind of golden age of historical fiction. We’re finally escaping the image that anything...
View ArticleRose Under Fire: Author Elizabeth Wein’s 2014 BGHB Fiction Honor Speech
Greetings to Roger Sutton, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award judges, and everyone at the awards ceremony, from Elizabeth Wein in Warsaw, Poland. Between you and me today stretches a distance of over...
View ArticleElizabeth Wein on Code Name Verity
From the May/June 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Roger asks Code Name Verity author Elizabeth Wein about writing books and flying airplanes. Read the full review of Code Name Verity here. Roger...
View ArticleAn Interview with Elizabeth Wein
Elizabeth Wein posing with a WWII-ear Lysander. Photo by Jonathan Habicht, courtesy of the Shuttleworth collection. Author Elizabeth Wein is also a pilot, and her two most recent novels, Code Name...
View ArticleReview of Black Dove, White Raven
Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein Middle School, High School Hyperion 353 pp. 3/15 978-1-4231-8310-5 $17.99 g e-book ed. 978-1-4847-0780-7 $9.99 Wein’s newest novel, set in...
View ArticleFive questions for Elizabeth Wein
Photo: David Ho As two-time Boston Globe–Horn Book honoree Elizabeth Wein reminds us below, a page-turner isn’t necessarily about plot twists and cliffhangers. For more books you can’t put down, see...
View ArticleBGHB at 50: Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, established in 1967, we will be publishing a series of appreciations of BGHB winners and honorees from the past. Further...
View Article