Eleanor Estes
Eleanor Estes (May 9, 1906 – July 15, 1988) was an American children's author.
She was born in West Haven, Connecticut as Eleanor Ruth Rosenfield. She worked as a children's librarian in New Haven, Connecticut, and New York.[1] Estes' writing career began following a case of tuberculosis. Bedridden while recovering, Estes began writing down some of her childhood memories, which would later turn into full-length children's books.
In 1931 the Caroline M. Hewins scholarship for children's librarians was awarded to her, and she went to New York to study at the Pratt Institute library school. In 1932 she married Rice Estes, then a student and later a professor of library science. .[2] She taught at the University of New Hampshire Writer's Conference.[3]
Estes's book Ginger Pye (1951) won the Newbery Medal, and three of her other books (The Middle Moffat, Rufus M., and The Hundred Dresses) were chosen as Newbery Honor books. The Moffats won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961. She also received the Certificate of Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Literature and was nominated for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. By the time of her death at age 82, Estes had written 19 children's books and one novel for adults.
Her papers are at the University of Southern Mississippi,[4] and University of Minnesota.[5]
[edit] Bibliography
- The Moffats (1941)
- The Middle Moffat (1942)
- The Sun and the Wind and Mr. Todd (1943)
- Rufus M. (1943)
- The Hundred Dresses (1944)
- The Echoing Green (book) (1947)
- Sleeping Giant and Other Stories (1948)
- Ginger Pye (1951)
- A Little Oven (1955)
- Pinky Pye (1958)
- The Witch Family (1960)
- Small but Wiry (1963)
- The Alley (1964)
- The Lollipop Princess (1967)
- Miranda the Great (1967)
- The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode (1972)
- The Lost Umbrella of Kim Chu (1978)
- The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree (1979)
- The Moffat Museum (1983)
- The Curious Adventures of Jimmy McGee (1987)
[edit] References
- ^ "Eleanor Estes Papers", University of Minnesota library
- ^ "ELEANOR ESTES PAPERS", University of Southern Mississippi library
- ^ Newbery Medal Books: 1922-1955, eds. Bertha Mahony Miller, Elinor Whitney Field, Horn Book, 1955, LOC 55-13968, p.355-360
- ^ "ELEANOR ESTES PAPERS", University of Southern Mississippi library
- ^ "Eleanor Estes Papers", University of Minnesota library
