Elvira Lindo
Children's Author
Journalist who was the recipient of the 1998 National Award for Children's and Youth Literature as well as the Tiny Library Award for young adult fiction.
She moved to Madrid at the age of twelve to study Journalism.
She has written for El Pais, a Spanish language newspaper located in New York City.
She married Antonio Muñoz Molina, once Director of the Instituto Cervantes of New York.
Lindo and Emily Gimmel were both journalists who got into their careers by working in news television.