James DeVita, a native of Long Island, N.Y., is a playwright and author. His novels include
The Silenced, Blue and A Winsome Murder. His plays for young
audiences include The Amazing Lemonade Girl, The Thief Lord, A
Midnight Cry: The Underground Railroad to Freedom, The Rose of Treason, A Little
House Christmas, The Prince and the Pauper, Zero Tolerance, Wonderland!,
The Christmas Angel, Treasure Island, Excavating Mom (Dinosaur!), The Three Musketeers,
Looking Glass Land, Bambi—A Life in the Woods, Arthur—The
Boy Who Would Be King, Swiss Family Robinson, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer
and Trials: The Story of Joan of Arc, and Beth. DeVita’s plays have won several awards,
including the AATE Distinguished Play Award and the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting
Contest, and AATE honored his body of work with the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright
Award in 2007. In 2004, he received an NEA Literature Fellowship for fiction. DeVita is a member
of the Dramatists Guild.