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Lynn Joseph is an author of children's books and an American lawyer.[1] Her novella The Color of My Words won an Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award.
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Lynn Joseph was born in Trinidad and moved to the United States when she was nine years old.[2] After moving to the United States with her family, she visited Trinidad during summers.[2] She wrote poems and stories as a student and published her work in student publications.[2]
She graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in 1986 and from Fordham University Law School with a J.D. in 1993.[2] After college, she worked as an editorial assistant at Harper & Row Children's Books.[2] During her career as an attorney, she worked for the City of New York in litigation, and for Rohn & Carpenter, a law firm based in the U.S. Virgin Islands.[2]
In 1990, Joseph published the children's book Coconut Kind of Day: Island Poems, featuring 13 poems narrated by a child describing her life in Trinidad.[3] In 1991, she released A Wave in Her Pocket: Stories from Trinidad, a children's book of folklore from Trinidad,[4] and released The Mermaid's Twin Sister: More Stories from Trinidad in 1994.[5][6] In 1992, she released An Island Christmas, describing a Trinidad Christmas from the child narrator's perspective.[7] In 1994, she also released Jasmine's Parlour Day, a children's book featuring a story of a mother and daughter.[8][9]
In 1998, Joseph released Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Carnival Story, a children's book about two sisters during the Trinidad Carnival time,[10][11] and Fly, Bessie, Fly, a children's book about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman aviator.[12][13] In 2000, she released The Color of My Words, a novella written for children that features a child protagonist and her life in the Dominican Republic.[14]
In 2013, Joseph released the novel Flowers in the Sky, featuring a teenage protagonist and her life in the Dominican Republic and the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City.[15][16][17][18] In 2015, she released Dancing in the Rain, a novel featuring Dominican children and their navigation of the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[19]
She won the 1994 Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature for The Mermaid’s Twin Sister, and won the award again in 2000 for The Color of My Words.[20] The Color of My Words also earned a Jane Addams Children's Book Award.[21] Her manuscript for The Truth Is was a finalist for the 2015 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature.[22]
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