Elizabeth Yates (author), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elizabeth Yates (author)

American writer

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1905

Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, United States

Date of Death: 29-Jul-2001

Profession: writer, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Elizabeth Yates McGreal (December 6, 1905 – July 29, 2001) was an American writer.
She may be known best 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.
Many of her books were illustrated by the British artist Nora S.
Unwin.Yates wrote a three-volume autobiography: My Diary – My World (1981), My Widening World (1983), and One Writer's Way (1984).