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The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922...
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Hendrik Willem van Loon
Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian and journalist.
He was born in Rotterdam, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. He went to the United States in 1902 to study at...
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Hugh Lofting
Hugh John Lofting (January 14, 1886 – September 26, 1947) was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle — one of the classics of children's literature.
He was born in Maidenhead, England, to English...
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Charles Hawes
Charles Boardman Hawes (January 24, 1889 – 1923) was an American author. He was posthumously awarded the 1924 Newbery Medal for The Dark Frigate (1923). Additionally, The Great Quest (1921) was a 1922 Newbery Honor book.
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Charles Finger
Charles Joseph Finger (December 25, 1869 – January 7, 1941) was an American author.
He was born in Willesden, England and attended King's College London. He traveled extensively as a young man, visiting North America, South America, and Africa. He...
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Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Arthur Bowie Chrisman (July 16, 1889–February 1953) was an American author. He was born in Clarke County, Virginia. Chrisman was educated in a one-room school and attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute from 1906 to 1908 but left at the end of his...
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Will James
Will James (1892-1942), artist and writer of the American West, was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault, June 6, 1892 in Saint-Nazaire-d'Acton, Quebec, Canada. It was during his creative years everyone grew to know him as Will James.
His early years...
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Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Bengali: ধন গোপাল মুখোপাধ্যায় Dhan Gopal Mukhopaddhae) (July 6, 1890 –July 14, 1936) was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and winner of Newbery Medal 1928 . He studied at Duff School (now known as...
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Eric P. Kelly
Eric Philbrook Kelly (16 March 1884-3 January 1960) was an American journalist, academic and author of books for young readers, whose book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1929. He was a professor of...
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Rachel Field
Rachel Lyman Field (September 19, 1894 – March 15, 1942) was an American novelist, poet, and author of children's fiction. She is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel for young adults, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, published in 1929....
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Elizabeth Coatsworth
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1893-1986) was an American author of children's fiction and poetry. Her novel The Cat Who Went to Heaven won the 1931 Newbery Medal.
Born May 31, 1893, in Buffalo, New York, Coatsworth attended Buffalo Seminary for High...
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Laura Adams Armer
Laura Adams Armer (January 12, 1874 – March 16, 1963) was an American artist and writer. In 1932, her novel Waterless Mountain won the Newbery Medal.
Armer was born Laura Adams in Sacramento, California. While studying at the California School of...
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Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (May 24, 1892 – August 7, 1958), was an American children's book author.
She was born Elizabeth Foreman in Baltimore, Maryland and studied art at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts from 1909-1910. Of that time, she has said,...
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Cornelia Meigs
Cornelia Lynde Meigs (December 6, 1884 – September 10, 1973) was an American author and educator.
Daughter of civil engineer "Major" Montgomery "Monty" Meigs and Grace Lynde Meigs, and granddaughter of Montgomery C. Meigs, she was born in Rock...
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Monica Shannon
Monica Shannon (1905?–1965) was an American author. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, but moved to the United States before her first birthday. Her first book, California Fairy Tales was published in 1926. That book was so popular that two years...
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Carol Ryrie Brink
Carol Ryrie Brink (1895-1981) an American author of over thirty juvenile and adult books. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal.
Born Caroline Ryrie on December 28, 1895, in Moscow, Idaho, the only child of Alexander and Henrietta ...
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Ruth Sawyer
Ruth Sawyer was the professional name of Ruth Sawyer Durand (August 5, 1880 - June 3, 1970), an American writer of children's books. She was born in Boston and raised in New York City. She studied folklore and storytelling at Columbia University,...
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Kate Seredy
Kate Seredy (10 November 1896 – 7 March 1975) was a Hungarian-born writer and illustrator of children's books, written in the English language. She moved from Budapest to the United States in 1922 with an art teacher's diploma from Academy of Arts,...
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Elizabeth Enright
Elizabeth Enright (September 17, 1909 — June 8, 1968) was an American children's author and illustrator. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Her father, Walter J. Enright, was a political cartoonist; her mother, Maginel Wright Enright, was a book...
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James Daugherty
James Henry Daugherty (June 1, 1889 – February 21, 1974) was an American author and illustrator. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, he subsequently lived in Indiana, Ohio, and at the age of 9 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he studied at the...
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Robert Lawson
Robert Lawson (October 4, 1892 – May 27, 1957) was an American author and illustrator of children's books, some of which are widely known. During World War I, he also served as a camouflage artist.
Born in New York City, Lawson spent his early life...
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Armstrong Sperry
Armstrong Wells Sperry (November 7, 1897–April 26, 1976) was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books include historical fiction and biography, often set on sailing ships, and stories of boys from Polynesia, Asia and...
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Walter D. Edmonds
Walter "Wat" Dumaux Edmonds (July 15, 1903 – January 24, 1998) was an American author noted for his historical novels, including the popular Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), which was successfully made into a Technicolor feature film in 1939 directed...
Elizabeth Gray Vining
Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining (October 6, 1902 - November 27, 1999), born Elizabeth Janet Gray and also known as Elizabeth Gray Vining, was a professional librarian who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was the Crown Prince. She was...
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Esther Forbes
Esther Forbes (June 28, 1891 - August 12, 1967) was an American novelist and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal.
Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the fifth of six children born to Harriette...
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Lois Lenski
Lois Lenski (October 14, 1893 - September 11, 1974) was a popular and prolific American writer of children's and young adult fiction.
One of her projects was a collection of regional novels about children across the United States. Titles in this...
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Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 – December 23, 1961) was an American children's author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896. She contributed to the...
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William Pène du Bois
William Pène du Bois, (May 9, 1916 – February 5, 1993), was a French American author and illustrator. He was best known for The Twenty-One Balloons, published in April, 1947 by The Viking Press. From 1953 to 1960, he worked with George Plimpton as...
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Marguerite Henry
Marguerite Henry (April 13, 1902-November 26, 1997) was an American writer. Henry inspired children all over the world with her love of animals, especially horses. The author of fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals, her...
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Marguerite de Angeli
Marguerite de Angeli (March 14, 1889 – June 16, 1987) was a bestselling author and illustrator of children's books including the 1950 Newbery Award winning book The Door in the Wall. She wrote and illustrated twenty-eight of her own books, and...
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Elizabeth Yates
Elizabeth Yates (December 6, 1905 - July 29, 2001) was a prolific American author. She is perhaps best known for her Newbery Medal winning novel Amos Fortune, Free Man. Book about a man who is taken away as a slave from his father(king).....
Her...
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Eleanor Estes
Eleanor Estes (May 9, 1906 – July 15, 1988) was an American children's author. She was born in West Haven, Connecticut as Eleanor Ruth Rosenfield. Originally a librarian, Estes' writing career began following a case of tuberculosis. Bedridden while...
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Ann Nolan Clark
Ann Nolan Clark, born Anna Marie Nolan (December 5, 1896 – December 6, 1995) was an American writer who won the 1953 Newbery Medal.
Born in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Clark graduated from New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas at age 21, and...
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Meindert DeJong
Meindert De Jong sometimes spelled as Meindert de Jong or Dejong (4 March 1906 – 16 July 1991) was an award winning author of children's books. He was born in the village of Wierum, of the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands.
De Jong...
Jean Lee Latham
Jean Lee Latham (April 19, 1902 – June 13, 1995) was an American writer. She was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Her father was a cabinetmaker and her mother was a teacher. She attended West Virginia Wesleyan College and received an A.B. in 1925....
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Virginia Sorenson
Virginia Sorensen, also credited as Virginia Sorenson, (February 17, 1912, in Provo, Utah – December 24, 1991) was the author of the 1957 John Newbery Medal winning Miracles on Maple Hill. Her first novel, A Little Lower Than the Angels, was written...
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Harold Keith
Harold Keith the Newbery Medal winning author (1903 - 24 February 1998) Born and raised, lived and died in Oklahoma, the state was his abiding passion. He used Oklahoma as the settings for most of his books, though Rifles for Waite takes place...
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Joseph Krumgold
Joseph Quincy Krumgold (April 9, 1908-July 10, 1980) was a United States author and scriptwriter. He was the first author to receive the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature twice. Lois Lowry, Elizabeth George Speare,...
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Scott O'Dell
Scott O'Dell (May 23, 1898 – October 15, 1989) was an American children's author who wrote 26 novels for youngsters, along with three adult novels and four nonfiction books. He was most famously the author of the children's novel Island of the Blue...
Elizabeth George Speare
Elizabeth George Speare (November 21, 1908 – November 15, 1994) was an American children's author who won many awards for her historical fiction novels, including two Newbery Medals. She has been called one of America’s 100 most popular children’s...
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Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many...
Emily Neville
Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 – December 14, 1997) was an American author. She was born in Manchester, Connecticut and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. After receiving her A.B. from Bryn Mawr, she worked for the New York Daily New...
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Maia Wojciechowska
Maia Wojciechowski (August 8, 1927 – June 13, 2000) was a writer of children's books. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, spent some time in France and England, and later came to the United States with her parents. In 1965, her book Shadow of a Bull ...
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Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
Mary Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (September 2, 1904 - December 2, 2001) is an American author.
Elizabeth was born in Bakersfield, California, the daughter of attorney Fred Ellsworth Borton and Carrie Louise Christensen. Her family were all...
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Irene Hunt
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Irene Hunt (May 18, 1907 – May 18, 2001) was born to Franklin P. and Sarah Land Hunt on May 8, 1907 in Pontiac, Illinois. The family soon moved to Newton, Illinois, but Franklin died when Hunt was only...
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Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books. His most famous contribution to the...
William Howard Armstrong
William H. Armstrong (September 14, 1911 near Lexington, Virginia - April 11, 1999 in Kent, Connecticut) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder.
After growing up on a farm near...
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Betsy Byars
Betsy Cromer Byars (born August 7, 1928) is an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award, for The Night Swimmers (1980), and an Edgar Award, for Wanted....
Robert C. O'Brien
Robert Leslie Conly (January 11, 1918 - March 5, 1973) (better known by his pen name, Robert C. O'Brien) was an American author and journalist for National Geographic Magazine.
Conly was the third of five children from a well-educated Irish-Catholic...
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Jean Craighead George
Jean Craighead George (b. 2 July 1919 in Washington, D.C.) is an American author. She lives in Chappaqua, New York.
Jean Craighead George has written over one hundred popular books for young adults, including the Newbery Medal and Deutscher...
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Paula Fox
Paula Fox (born April 22, 1923) is an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer (1973) received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. More...
Susan Cooper
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is a British author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume fantasy saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology (Arthurian and folkloric...
Mildred Taylor
Mildred DeLois Taylor (born 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an African American author, known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South. Mildred Taylor lived in Jackson, Mississippi then moved to...
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is an American author of books for children.
Paterson was born in Jiangsu, China to Christian missionaries George and Mary Womeldorf. Her father was a principal at Sutton 690, a school for girls, and...
Ellen Raskin
Ellen Ermingard Raskin (March 13, 1928 - August 8, 1984) was an American writer, illustrator and fashion designer. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up during the Great Depression. Primarily a children's author, she received the 1979...
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Joan Blos
Joan Winsor Blos (9 December 1928 – ) is an author, Teacher and Advocate for Children and Literature. In 1980, she won the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award for A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal. She lives in Ann Arbor,...
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Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard (born June 26, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a children's author and poet. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She lives in Poughkeepsie, New York and lectures at Vassar College. She was...
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Cynthia Voigt
Cynthia Voigt (born 1942) is an American author of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. Her first book in the Tillerman family series, Homecoming, was nominated for several...
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Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary (born Beverly Atlee Bunn on April 12, 1916) is an American author from Oregon. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before starting to write children's books. Cleary has written over 30 books...
Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley (born November 16, 1952 as Jennifer Carolyn Robin Turrell McKinley) is a fantasy author especially known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel The Hero and the Crown. She has also won a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, the Mythopoeic...
Patricia MacLachlan
Patricia MacLachlan (born March 3, 1938 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) is a bestselling U.S. children's author, best known for winning the 1986 Newbery Medal for her book Sarah, Plain and Tall. The book was later turned into a TV movie starring Glenn Close...
