Elizabeth Yates

Author

  • Elizabeth Yates McGreal (1905 – 2001) was an American Quaker author. She was best known 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.

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