Joyce Hansen est une auteure accomplie de littérature pour enfants et jeunes adultes, avec une carrière s'étendant sur plus de deux décennies. Son premier roman, "The Gift-Giver", publié en 1980, s'inspirait de son enfance dans le Bronx et de ses expériences en tant qu'éducatrice. Ce livre marqua le début d'un parcours d'écriture prolifique alliant réalisme contemporain à des thèmes familiaux, communautaires et de développement personnel.
Née et élevée à New York, Hansen fréquenta les écoles publiques du Bronx avant d'obtenir un baccalauréat ès arts de l'université Pace et une maîtrise ès arts de l'université de New York. Elle passa des années à enseigner dans les écoles publiques new-yorkaises avant de devenir professeure d'écriture et de littérature au Empire State College. Son expérience d'éducatrice influença profondément son approche narrative, reflétant souvent la vie et les défis des jeunes urbains. Après avoir pris sa retraite de l'enseignement en 1995, elle s'installa en Caroline du Sud, où elle continue d'écrire à plein temps.
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
Romans indépendants
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Home Boy
1982
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The Captive
1994
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Home Is with Our Family
2010
Livres de 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)
2002
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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)
2002
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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