Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan was born Patricia Pritzkau in 1938 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Her father was a professor of the philosophy of education and her mother an English teacher. When she was five the family moved to Rochester, Minnesota, and later to Connecticut. She studied English at the University of Connecticut, graduating in 1962, the year she married Robert MacLachlan; they had three children. From 1963 to 1979 she taught English at a junior high school in Connecticut. She began writing at the age of 35, after her children had started school, and published her first book, The Sick Day, in 1979. Sarah, Plain and Tall, about a woman from Maine who answers a widowed prairie farmer's advertisement for a wife and comes to meet his children, won the Newbery Medal in 1986. It was made into a television film in 1991, with MacLachlan as one of the screenwriters, and was followed by sequels. She wrote more than sixty books, some with her daughter Emily, and received a National Humanities Medal in 2002. She died in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, in 2022.

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