Elizabeth Yates

Elizabeth Yates was born in 1905 in Buffalo, New York, the seventh of eight children. Her father was a farmer, and she grew up with a love of animals and nature, while her mother encouraged her interest in books and writing. After finishing school she moved to New York City and began working as a writer, contributing travel articles to newspapers including The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. She married William McGreal and lived for some years in England before the couple settled on a farm in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Her novel Mountain Born was a Newbery runner-up in 1944, and Amos Fortune, Free Man, a biographical novel about an African man who was enslaved in Massachusetts, bought his freedom and became a tanner in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, won the Newbery Medal in 1951. Many of her books were illustrated by the British artist Nora S. Unwin. She wrote dozens of books for children and adults, including a three-volume autobiography. She died in 2001.

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