Katherine Paterson
Novelist, Author
1932 –
Who is Katherine Paterson?
Katherine Paterson is an American author best known for children's novels. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of three people to win the two major international awards: for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense", she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest prize in children's literature. She was the second U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, 2010–2011, and she received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the American Library Association in 2013.
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- Born
- Oct 31, 1932
Huai'an - Also known as
- Katherine Womeldorf
- Parents
- Spouses
- John Paterson
(1962 - )
- John Paterson
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- China
- Profession
- Education
- King College
- Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education
- Lived in
- Vermont
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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