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About Elizabeth Yates
Elizabeth Yates McGreal was an American writer. She may have been known best for the biographical novel Amos Fortune, Free Man, winner of the 1951 Newbery Medal. She had been a Newbery runner-up in 1944 for Mountain Born. She began her writing career as a journalist, contributing travel articles to The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Many of her books were illustrated by the British artist Nora S. Unwin.
Everything about Elizabeth Yates →- Occupation
- writer, novelist, children's writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 6, 1905
- Died
- July 29, 2001