Deborah Wiles

Deborah Wiles is a children's book author whose fiction draws on her own childhood and on historical events such as Freedom Summer, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War. She wrote Each Little Bird That Sings, a 2005 National Book Award finalist, and Revolution, a documentary novel that was a 2014 National Book Award finalist. She also received the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award in 2005 and the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2004.