Elizabeth Yates

Elizabeth Yates was born in Buffalo, New York, in late 1905. She was the second youngest of her parents’ eight children. After completing her education, she moved to New York City, where she began a career in journalism. Subsequently, she spent 10 years living in England with her husband before the couple returned to the United States and settled in New Hampshire. Her first novel was published in 1983, and she went on to write more than 50 books for children and adults. Over the course of her career, she won numerous awards, including the Newberry Medal for Amos Fortune, Free Man. In addition to her career as a writer, she was an active environmentalist who worked to preserve the wild lands in the New Hampshire mountains prior to her death in 2001.