Elizabeth Wein

Elizabeth Wein is the multiple award-winning author of the YA Code Name Verity cycle of books: The Enigma Game, Code Name Verity, Rose Under Fire, and The Pearl Thief, all set during WWII or just before.  She is also the author of Stateless, a YA crime/thriller novel; the Warbirds cycle (Firebird, White Eagles, The Last Hawk); Black Dove, White Raven, which won the Children’s Africana Book Award; the Lion Hunters Arthurian/Aksumite cycle; Cobalt Squadron, a middle-grade novel set in the Star Wars universe; and several NF books: A Thousand Sisters and her most recent, co-written with our own Sherri L. Smith, American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky.  She and her British husband, Tim, have private pilot licenses. A dual British and American citizen, Elizabeth lives in Scotland. She received a PhD in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth’s books have been sold to multiple non-US publishers and been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.