Tripp, Valierie

Valerie Tripp (Yale ’73; Harvard GSE ’82) is the award-winning author of American Girl books about Felicity, Josefina, Samantha, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen as well as the Welliewisher and Hopscotch Hill School series. Currently, Tripp is writing a STEM series for National Geographic Kids. She has adapted classics for Sterling Publishers, and has written numerous leveled readers, songs, stories, skills book pages, poems, and plays for educational publishers.