found: Her Addie across the prairie, 1985: CIP t.p. (Laurie Lawlor)
found: 2006-05-19, e-mail fr. J.Peterson, World Book: (E.L. Thompson is a "pen name" of Laurie Lawlor; do not use her real name for any items published under this pen name; b. Apr. 4, 1953)
found: Laurie Lawlor, via WWW, May 10, 2013 (graduated, Northwestern University, Journalism; worked for many years as a freelance writer and editor; now writes fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults; she teaches writing workshops and is a part-time faculty member of Chicago's Columbia College, where she teaches writing; she lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband)
found: Illinois Center for the Book, via WWW, May 10, 2013 (born in 1953 in Evanston, Illinois and grew up in LaGrange; contact: laurie@laurielawlor.com)
notfound: Cesar Chavez, with profiles of Terence V. Powderly and Dolores Huerta, c2007: CIP t.p. (writer, E.L. Thompson)