Elizabeth George Speare

Elizabeth George was born in 1908 in Melrose, Massachusetts, near Boston, and spent most of her life in New England, the setting of many of her books. She began writing stories in high school, studied at Smith College and earned a master's degree at Boston University, and then taught high school English in Massachusetts. In 1936 she married Alden Speare and moved to Connecticut, where she raised two children and began writing magazine articles and then historical fiction for young readers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958), about a girl from Barbados who comes to live among Puritans in Connecticut and is accused of witchcraft, won the Newbery Medal, and The Bronze Bow (1961), about a young man in Galilee in the time of Jesus, won it again. The Sign of the Beaver (1983), about a boy alone in the Maine wilderness who is befriended by a Penobscot boy, was a Newbery Honor Book. In 1989 she received the award now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award, and she died in 1994.

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