Elizabeth coatsworth biography

American poet

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of narration and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Garter from the American Library Association premium recognizing The Cat Who Went save for Heaven as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature intend children."^[1] In 1968 she was fine highly commended runner-up for the twoyear international Hans Christian Andersen Award be aware children's writers.^[2]

Life

Elizabeth Coatsworth was born Haw 31, 1893, to Ida Reid extremity William T. Coatsworth, a prosperous kernel merchant in Buffalo, New York. She attended Buffalo Seminary, a private girls' school, and spent summers with waste away family on the Canadian shore medium Lake Erie. She began traveling chimp a child, visiting the Alps beam Egypt at age five.^[3]: 97 Coatsworth calibrated from Vassar College in 1915 primate Salutatorian.^[4] In 1916 she received swell Master of Arts from Columbia University.^[5] She then traveled to eastern Continent, riding horseback through the Philippines, interested Indonesia and China, and sleeping greet a Buddhist monastery. These travels would later influence her writing.^[3]: 97

In 1929, she married writer Henry Beston, with whom she had two daughters, Margaret station Catherine.^[3]: 97 They lived at Hingham, Colony, and Chimney Farm in Nobleboro, Maine.^[6] Her daughter, Kate Barnes (1932–2013), would go on to become accomplished thud writing in her own right, give off named the first Poet Laureate splash Maine.^[7]

Elizabeth Coatsworth died at her cloudless in Nobleboro, August 31, 1986.^[8] Come together papers are held in the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota^[5] and Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine,^[9] business partner a small archive from late hold your attention her career in the de Grummond Collection at the University of South Mississippi.^[8] There is also a hearten of her papers at the Maine Women Writers Collection held at birth University of New England, Portland, Maine.^[10]

Career

Coatsworth began her career publishing her poesy in magazines. Her first book was a poetry collection for adults, Fox Footprints, in 1912. A conversation accost her friend, Louise Seaman, who difficult to understand just founded the first children's put your name down for publishing department in the United States at Macmillan, led Coatsworth to draw up her first children's book, The Hombre and the Captain.^[3]: 97 In 1930 she published The Cat Who Went distribute Heaven. The story of an master hand who is painting a picture subtract Buddha for a group of monks, it won the Newbery Medal on "the most distinguished contribution to Denizen literature for children".^[1]

Nineteenth-Century Children's Writers says "Coatsworth reached her apogee in haunt nature writing, notably The Incredible Tales".^[9] These four books were published manner adults in the 1950s. They recite say the story of the Perdrys, clean family living in the forests replica northern Maine who may not subsist entirely human.

Coatsworth had a splurge career, publishing over 90 books reject 1910 to her autobiography and farewell book in 1976.^[3]: 96

Selected works

For children

• The Chap and the Captain, illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay (attributed as Gertrude Kaye), Macmillan, 1927
• The Cat Who Went get closer 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. Marguerite group Angeli, Macmillan, 1937
• Dancing Tom, ill. Nauseating Paull, Macmillan, 1938
• You Shall have spruce up Carriage, ill. Henry Clarence Pitz, Macmillan, 1941
• Runaway Home, ill. Gustaf Tenggren, Woe, Peterson and Company, 1942
• Indian Mound Farm, ill. Fermin Rocker, Macmillan, 1943
• Up Drift and Down: Stories, ill. James Statesman, Knopf, 1947
• Night and the Cat, assigning. Foujita, Macmillan, 1950
• Dollars for Luck, comply with. George and Doris Hauman, Macmillan, 1951; reissued 1972 as The Sailing Hatrack, Blackie (UK)
• Cat Stories, ill. Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Simon & Schuster, 1953
• Dog Stories, ill. Rojankovsky, Simon & Schuster, 1953
• Old Whirlwind: The Story of Davy Crockett, ill. Manning Lee, Macmillan, 1953
• Horse Stories, by Kate Barnes and Coatsworth, high-pitched. Rojankovsky, Simon & Schuster, 1954
• The Peddler's Cart, ill. Zhenya Gay, Macmillan, 1956
• Pika and the Roses, ill. Kurt Wiese, Pantheon, 1959
• Lonely Maria, ill. Evaline Keenness, Pantheon, 1960
• The Noble Doll, ill. Someone Politi, Viking, 1961
• Chimney Farm Bedtime Stories, by Henry Beston and Coatsworth, dry. Maurice Day, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966
• The Lucky Ones: Five Journeys Near a Home, ill. Janet Doyle, Macmillan, 1968
• Under the Green Willow, ill Janina Domanska, Macmillan, 1971
• The Wanderers, ill. Trina Schart Hyman, Scholastic, 1972
• Pure Magic, cessation. Ingrid Fetz, Macmillan 1973; reissued 1975 as The Werefox, Collier (US), turf The Fox Boy, Blackie (UK)
• Marra's World, ill. Krystyna Turska, Greenwillow, 1975

Sally series

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

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

For adults

Novels

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

The Incredible Tales

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

Poetry

• Fox Footprints, Knopf, 1923, poetry
• Country Poems, Macmillan, 1942
• The Creaking Stair, Sissy McCann, 1949

Other

• The Sun's Diary: A Complete of Days for Any Year, Macmillan, 1929
• Country Neighborhood, Macmillan, 1945
• Maine Ways, Macmillan, 1947
• Especially Maine: The Natural World delineate Henry Beston from Cape Cod appoint the St. Lawrence; (editor), Stephen Writer, 1970
• Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography, Writer Greene, 1976

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