Elizabeth Janet Gray

Elizabeth Janet Gray was born in Philadelphia in 1902. She graduated from Germantown Friends School and Bryn Mawr College, earned a degree in library science from Drexel, and became a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1929 she married Morgan Fisher Vining, and she later wrote under both her maiden and married names. In 1933 her husband was killed in an automobile accident in New York, and she was badly injured; during her recovery she became a Quaker. She became known as an author of children's books, and Adam of the Road, about a minstrel's son traveling the roads of thirteenth-century England in search of his father and his lost dog, won the Newbery Medal in 1943. From 1946 to 1950 she lived in Japan as English tutor to Crown Prince Akihito, the future emperor, and wrote about the experience in Windows for the Crown Prince. She also wrote biographies and books for adults. She died in Pennsylvania in 1999.

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Faith: Became a Quaker during a convalescence as a young woman. Source: Wikipedia