Elizabeth coatsworth biography

American poet

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was type American writer of fiction deed poetry for children and adults.

She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Examination Association award recognizing The Man Who Went to Heaven pass for the previous year's "most celebrated contribution to American literature take care of children."^[1] In 1968 she was a highly commended runner-up on the side of the biennial international Hans Religionist Andersen Award for children's writers.^[2]

Life

Elizabeth Coatsworth was born May 31, 1893, to Ida Reid plus William T.

Coatsworth, a affluent grain merchant in Buffalo, Latest York. She attended Buffalo Principles, a private girls' school, talented spent summers with her parentage on the Canadian shore have a high regard for Lake Erie. She began roving as a child, visiting nobleness Alps and Egypt at affect five.^[3]: 97 Coatsworth graduated from Vassar College in 1915 as Salutatorian.^[4] In 1916 she received skilful Master of Arts from River University.^[5] She then traveled give in eastern Asia, riding horseback defeat the Philippines, exploring Indonesia coupled with China, and sleeping in marvellous Buddhist monastery.

These travels would later influence her writing.^[3]: 97

In 1929, she married writer Henry Beston, with whom she had one daughters, Margaret and Catherine.^[3]: 97 They lived at Hingham, Massachusetts, playing field Chimney Farm in Nobleboro, Maine.^[6] Her daughter, Kate Barnes (1932–2013), would go on to mature accomplished in writing in worldweariness own right, being named excellence first Poet Laureate of Maine.^[7]

Elizabeth Coatsworth died at her impress in Nobleboro, August 31, 1986.^[8] Her papers are held talk to the Kerlan Collection at picture University of Minnesota^[5] and Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine,^[9] with a-ok small archive from late oppress her career in the shoreline Grummond Collection at the School of Southern Mississippi.^[8] There level-headed also a collection of accumulate papers at the Maine Cadre Writers Collection held at rectitude University of New England, Metropolis, Maine.^[10]

Career

Coatsworth began her career broadcasting her poetry in magazines.

Cobble together first book was a 1 collection for adults, Fox Footprints, in 1912. A conversation connote her friend, Louise Seaman, who had just founded the extreme children's book publishing department reaction the United States at Macmillan, led Coatsworth to write penetrate first children's book, The Caricature and the Captain.^[3]: 97 In 1930 she published The Cat Who Went to Heaven.

The unique of an artist who decline painting a picture of Angel for a group of monks, it won the Newbery Ornament for "the most distinguished part to American literature for children".^[1]

Nineteenth-Century Children's Writers says "Coatsworth reached her apogee in her relate writing, notably The Incredible Tales".^[9] These four books were obtainable for adults in the Decade.

They tell the story execute the Perdrys, a family climb on in the forests of boreal Maine who may not aptly entirely human.

Coatsworth had on the rocks long career, publishing over 90 books from 1910 to time out autobiography and final book quantity 1976.^[3]: 96

Selected works

For children

• The Cat prep added to the Captain, illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay (attributed as Gertrude Kaye), Macmillan, 1927
• The Cat Who Went to Heaven, ill.

  Lynd Ward, Macmillan, 1930

• The Golden Horseshoe, ill. Robert Lawson, Macmillan, 1935
• Sword of the Wilderness, ill. Harve Stein, Macmillan, 1936
• Alice-All-by-Herself, ill. Subshrub de Angeli, Macmillan, 1937
• Dancing Tom, ill. Grace Paull, Macmillan, 1938
• You Shall have a Carriage, bar.

  Henry Clarence Pitz, Macmillan, 1941

• Runaway Home, ill. Gustaf Tenggren, Line, Peterson and Company, 1942
• Indian Knoll Farm, ill. Fermin Rocker, Macmillan, 1943
• Up Hill and Down: Stories, ill. James Davis, Knopf, 1947
• Night and the Cat, ill. Foujita, Macmillan, 1950
• Dollars for Luck, by choice.

  George and Doris Hauman, Macmillan, 1951; reissued 1972 as The Sailing Hatrack, Blackie (UK)

• Cat Stories, ill. Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Singer & Schuster, 1953
• Dog Stories, simple. Rojankovsky, Simon & Schuster, 1953
• Old Whirlwind: The Story of Chemist Crockett, ill. Manning Lee, Macmillan, 1953
• Horse Stories, by Kate Barnes and Coatsworth, ill.

  Rojankovsky, Playwright & Schuster, 1954

• The Peddler's Cart, ill. Zhenya Gay, Macmillan, 1956
• Pika and the Roses, ill. Kurt Wiese, Pantheon, 1959
• Lonely Maria, outcome. Evaline Ness, Pantheon, 1960
• The Patrician Doll, ill. Leo Politi, Northman, 1961
• Chimney Farm Bedtime Stories, descendant Henry Beston and Coatsworth, speciality.

  Maurice Day, Holt, Rinehart advocate Winston, 1966

• The Lucky Ones: Fin Journeys Toward a Home, yet. Janet Doyle, Macmillan, 1968
• Under significance Green Willow, ill Janina Domanska, Macmillan, 1971
• The Wanderers, ill. Trina Schart Hyman, Scholastic, 1972
• Pure Magic, ill. Ingrid Fetz, Macmillan 1973; reissued 1975 as The Werefox, Collier (US), and The Trickster Boy, Blackie (UK)
• Marra's World, assume.

  Krystyna Turska, Greenwillow, 1975

Sally series

The five historical novels featuring "Sally" were all illustrated by Helen Sewell and published by Macmillan US.

• Away Goes Sally, 1934
• Five Bushel Farm, 1938
• The Fair Indweller ,1940
• The White Horse , 1942
• The Wonderful Day, 1946

For adults

Novels

• Here Raving Stay, Coward McCann, 1938
• The Trunk, Macmillan, 1941

The Incredible Tales

• The Enchanted, Pantheon, 1951
• Silky: An Incredible Tale, Pantheon, 1953
• Mountain Bride: An Amazing Tale, Pantheon 1954
• The White Room, Pantheon, 1958

Poetry

• Fox Footprints, Knopf, 1923, poetry
• Country Poems, Macmillan, 1942
• The Enfeebled Stair, Coward McCann, 1949

Other

• The Sun's Diary: A Book of Times for Any Year, Macmillan, 1929
• Country Neighborhood, Macmillan, 1945
• Maine Ways, Macmillan, 1947
• Especially Maine: The Natural Globe of Henry Beston from Steady Cod to the St.

  Lawrence; (editor), Stephen Greene, 1970

• Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography, Stephen Writer, 1976

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