Scott O'Dell
Novelist, Author
1898 – 1989
Who was Scott O'Dell?
Scott O'Dell was an American author of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books. He wrote historical fiction, primarily, including several children's novels are about historical California and Mexico. For his contribution as a children's writer he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1972, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. He received the The University of Southern Mississippi Medallion in 1976 and the Catholic Libraries Association Regina Medal in 1978.
O'Dell's best known work is the historical novel Island of the Blue Dolphins, which won the 1961 Newbery Medal and the 1963 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in its German translation. It was also named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. He was one of the annual Newbery runners-up for three other books: The King's Fifth, The Black Pearl, and Sing Down the Moon.
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- Born
- May 23, 1898
Los Angeles - Also known as
- Odell Gabriel Scott
- O'dell Gabriel Scott
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Rome La Sapienza
- Occidental College
- Stanford University
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lived in
- California
- Died
- Oct 15, 1989
Mount Kisco
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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