Candace Fleming is the prolific and versatile award-winning author of many books for children and young adults. She is the 2026 winner of the prestigious Children’s Literature Legacy Award for the full body of her published works for children, having made a substantial and lasting contribution to children’s literature through books that demonstrate integrity and respect for all children’s lives and experiences. She is also the 2026 winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors an author, as well as a specific body of her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.
Her most recent book, Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown, won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and a YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and received eight starred reviews. In addition, School Library Journal praised Murder Among Friends, which received four starred reviews, as a “chilling page-turner.” The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh received six starred reviews, was a Kirkus, PW, Booklist, and SLJ Best Book of the Year, and was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as a “fascinating chronicle.” Candace’s The Family Romanov also received six starred reviews, won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was recognized as a Sibert Nonfiction Honor Book. Her many acclaimed picture books include Giant Squid, a Sibert Honor Book. Visit her on the web at candacefleming.com.
