Ouida Sebestyen

Ouida Sebestyen was an American author of young adult literature. Her first published novel Words by Heart (1979), about an African American family in Texas in 1910, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1980 and a winner in 1982. She went on to publish more than a dozen more books, and was again a finalist for the National Book Award in 1981 for her novel Far from Home.