<link href="css/blue_gold_FINAL.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:89e4bb3b-67c8-43be-a85d-1fc75ec13377" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="ser"> <img alt="About the Author" class="imgpubtype" src="image/4444.png"/> </p> <p class="ser"> <img alt="Photo of Elizabeth Stewart" class="imgpubtype" src="image/elizabeth_stewart_BW_fmt.jpeg"/> </p> <p class="first-para"><small>ELIZABETH STEWART’S</small> first young adult novel, <i>The Lynching of Louie Sam</i>, was based on the true story of a mob lynching of a Native American teen in 1884. It has received wide acclaim, including the 2013 Notable Books for a Global Society, the International Youth Library’s White Ravens Collection 2013, the Skipping Stones Honor Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, and the John Spray Mystery Award. </p> <p class="body-text">During her lengthy career as a screenwriter, Stewart has received multiple awards for her television series scripts for young people, including <i>The Adventures of Shirley Holmes</i> and <i>Guinevere Jones.</i> She has also written movies for television, among them <i>Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story</i>, an examination of teen violence based on a true incident, and <i>Luna: Spirit of the Whale</i>, which chronicles the transformational effect a stray killer whale off the west coast of Canada has on a First Nations community. Both of these films were nominated for Geminis.</p> <p class="body-text">Stewart lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. </p> </body> </html>