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(1905-2001) Writer, novelist. Elizabeth Yates was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Concord, New Hampshire.

Full Name

Elizabeth Yates

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1905

BIRTH

Mary Elizabeth Yates was born in Buffalo, New York, on December 6, 1905.

1920

RESIDENCE

Ms. Yates lived in Manhattan, New York, for a time during the late 1920s.

1925

OTHER

Ms. Yates spent a year at Oaksmere School for Girls around 1925.

1938

LITWORK

High Holiday
A. and C. Black Ltd.

Novel.

1943

LITWORK

Patterns On The Wall
New York: Knopf

Novel.

1943

LITWORK

Mountain Born
Coward-McCann

Novel, a Newbery Honor recipient in 1944.

1950

LITWORK

Amos Fortune, Free Man
New York: E. P. Dutton

Novel, winner of the 1951 Newbery Medal.

1954

LITWORK

Rainbow Round the World: A Story of Unicef
The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc.

Children's book.

1962

LITWORK

The Next Fine Day
New York: The John Day Company

Children's book.

1973

LITWORK

The Road Through Sandwich Notch
The Stephen Greene Press
0828901856 / 978-0828901857
Nonfiction.

1981

LITWORK

My Diary -- My World
Westminster Press

Autobiography.

1983

LITWORK

My Widening World
Westminster Press
0664327028 / 978-0664327026
Autobiography.

1984

LITWORK

One Writer's Way
Westminster Press
0664327125 / 978-0664327125
Autobiography.

2001

DEATH

Elizabeth Yates (McGreal) died at a hospice in Concord, New Hampshire, on July 29, 2001.

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