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Rajani LaRocca

Rajani LaRocca is an Indian-American author of children's literature and a primary-care physician. She writes middle grade fiction relating to Indian-American identity and medicine. She won a 2022 Newbery Honor for her novel ''Red, White and Whole.''

LaRocca enjoyed creative writing in high school and college but stopped when she began attending medical school. She began writing again in 2011. She signed with TriadaUS Literary Agency in 2017.'

LaRocca is of Tamil descent. She was born in Bangalore' but grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, where she attended Louisville Collegiate School. She moved to Boston for college. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.

As of 2022, she lived in Concord, Massachusetts with her family.

Four of LaRocca's books are Junior Library Guild selections: ''Much Ado about Baseball'' (2021), ''Red, White, and Whole'' (2021), ''Summer Is for Cousins'' (2023), and ''Sona and the Golden Beasts'' (2024), Provided by Wikipedia