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Lesléa Newman (born 1955, Brooklyn, NY) is the author of over 50 books including Heather Has Two Mommies, A Letter To Harvey Milk, Writing From The Heart, In Every Laugh a Tear, The Femme Mystique, Still Life with Buddy, Fat Chance and Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear.
She has received many literary awards including Poetry Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Highlights for Children Fiction Writing Award, the James Baldwin Award for Cultural Achievement, and two Pushcart Prize Nominations.
Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award finalists.
Ms. Newman wrote Heather Has Two Mommies, the first children's book to portray lesbian families in a positive way, and
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“The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.”
Lesléa Newman, Heather Has Two Mommies

“...as a child, I was an avid reader. And despite reading hundreds of books about straight people, I did not grow up to embrace the heterosexual lifestyle. Similarly, someone who is heterosexual is not going to turn gay from reading a book that features a child being raised by two moms.”
Lesléa Newman

“A book cannot change the inner core of who you are. It can't alter what you came with down the birth canal and into this world. But a book can validate, comfort, educate, and enlighten. Books can help make this a more accepting, respectful, and more celebratory world.”
Lesléa Newman, You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

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