Joyce Hansen è un'autrice affermata di letteratura per bambini e giovani adulti con una carriera che abbraccia oltre due decenni. Il suo romanzo d'esordio, "The Gift-Giver", pubblicato nel 1980, trae ispirazione dalla sua infanzia nel Bronx e dalle sue esperienze come educatrice. Questo ha segnato l'inizio di un prolifico percorso letterario che unisce realismo contemporaneo a temi come la famiglia, la comunità e la crescita personale.
Nata e cresciuta a New York City, Hansen ha frequentato le scuole pubbliche del Bronx prima di conseguire una laurea in Lettere alla Pace University e un master alla New York University. Ha insegnato per anni nelle scuole pubbliche di New York City e successivamente ha tenuto corsi di scrittura e letteratura all'Empire State College. La sua formazione come educatrice ha influenzato profondamente il suo stile narrativo, spesso riflettendo le vite e le sfide dei giovani urbani. Dopo il pensionamento dall'insegnamento nel 1995, si è trasferita in South Carolina, dove continua a scrivere a tempo pieno.
Obi and Easter Trilogy Books
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Which Way Freedom?
1986
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Out from This Place
1988
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The Heart Calls Home
1999
Romanzi singoli
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Home Boy
1982
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The Captive
1994
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Home Is with Our Family
2010
Libri di non-fiction
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Between Two Fires
1993
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Women of Hope
1994
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Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence (With: Gary McGowan)
1998
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Bury Me Not in a Land of Slaves
2000
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Freedom Roads (With: Gary McGowan)
2003
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African Princess (With: Laurie McGaw)
2004
163rd Street Trilogy
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The Gift Giver
1980
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Yellow Bird and Me
1986
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One True Friend (With: James Cross Giblin, Pro Ecclesia)
2001
Dear America Books
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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 (By: Barry Denenberg)
1996
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A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (By: Kathryn Lasky)
1996
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Winter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart ( By: Kristiana Gregory)
1996
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
1997
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A Picture Of Freedom (By: Patricia McKissack)
1997
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Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 (By: Barry Denenberg)
1998
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Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903 (By: Kathryn Lasky)
1998
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West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi (By: Jim Murphy)
1998
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Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 ( By: Mary Pope Osborne)
1998
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A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence (By: Sherry Garland)
1998
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Stationery Pack (By: Patricia McKissack)
1998
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Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912 (By: Ellen Emerson White)
1998
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The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory 1868 (By: Kristiana Gregory)
1999
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My Heart is on the Ground (By: Ann Rinaldi)
1999
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The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl (By: Ann Turner)
1999
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A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin (By: Karen Hesse)
1999
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Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North (By: Patricia McKissack)
2000
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A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 (By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti)
2000
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My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 (By: Mary Pope Osborne)
2000
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One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938 (By: Barry Denenberg)
2000
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Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932 ( By: Kathryn Lasky)
2001
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Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846, (By: Sherry Garland)
2001
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Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849 (By: Kristiana Gregory)
2001
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My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881 (By: Jim Murphy)
2001
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When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer (By: Beth Seidel Levine)
2002
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My Secret War : The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck (By: Kathryn Lasky)
2002
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A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917 (By: Kathryn Lasky)
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (By: Ellen Emerson White)
2002
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932 (By: Barry Denenberg)
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Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 (By: Katelan Janke)
2002
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So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (By: Barry Denenberg)
2003
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Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson (By: Ann Turner)
2003
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Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota (By: Marion Dane Bauer)
2003
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All the Stars in the Sky ( By: Megan McDonald)
2003
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Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763 (By: Patricia McKissack)
2004
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Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (By: Deborah Hopkinson)
2004
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I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691 (By: Lisa Rowe Fraustino)
2004
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The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 (By: Kirby Larson)
2010
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Like the Willow Tree ( By: Lois Lowry)
2011
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Cannons at Dawn ( By: Kristiana Gregory)
2011
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With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 (By: Andrea Davis Pinkney)
2011
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Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880 (By: Susan Patron)
2012
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Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose (By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti)
2013
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A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 (By: Judy Blundell)
2013
Joyce Hansen Anthologies
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Don't Give Up the Ghost
1993
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Lost & Found: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction