Ruth White (children's author)
Ruth C. White | |
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Born | Whitewood, Virginia | March 15, 1942
Died | June 8, 2017 Hummelstown, Pennsylvania | (aged 75)
Occupation | Author |
Ruth C. White (March 15, 1942 — June 8, 2017) was an American children's writer. Her novel Belle Prater's Boy was a Newbery Honor Book in 1997.[1]
Work[]
- The City Rose, as Ruth White Miller (1977)
- Sweet Creek Holler
- Belle Prater's Boy, Newbery Honor, Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor
- Memories of Summer ALA Top Ten Books of the Year, 2001
- Tadpole biographical fiction
- Buttermilk Hill, a sequel to Weeping Willow
- The Search for Belle Prater, a sequel to "Belle Prater's Boy"
- Way Down Deep
- Little Audrey Booklist Top of the List, 2009
- The Treasure of Way Down Deep
- You'll Like it Here (Everybody Does)
- A month of Sundays
Self-published:
- Diary of a Wildflower, loosely based on the author's mother's early years
- Lily of the Valley: Mansions of Karma, book 1
- Serendipity: Memoir of a Mystic'
- The Blues of Lotus Hall
- Hanging With Ecila
References[]
- ^ "1997 Newbery Medal and Honor Books". Association for Library Service to Children. 1997. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1942 births
- Living people
- American children's writers
- Newbery Honor winners
- People from Buchanan County, Virginia
- Writers from Virginia
- American women children's writers
- American writer stubs