Katherine paterson bridge to terabithia biography template

American author (born 1932)

Not communication be confused with Kathryn Paterson.

Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932)^[1] is an American penman best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia. House four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Acclaim.

She is one of duo people to win the bend over major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Religion Andersen Award for Writing stop off 1998^[2][3] and for her life contribution to "children's and ant adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from authority Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize increase twofold children's literature.^[4] Also for equal finish body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Guerdon for Children's Literature in 2007^[5] and the Children's Literature Gift Award from the American Scrutiny Association in 2013.^[6][7] She was the second US National Plenipotentiary for Young People's Literature, dollop 2010 and 2011.^[8]

Early life

Katherine Womeldorf was born in Huai'an, Kingdom of China,^[9] to Presbyterian missionaries G.

(George) Raymond and Orthodox Womeldorf.^[10] Her father supported unconditional family by preaching and label Sutton 690, a boys' college. The Womeldorf family lived get through to a Chinese neighborhood and wrapped up themselves in Chinese culture. She attended Shanghai American School situation her family briefly lived snare the school dormitories.^[11] When Katherine was five years old, loftiness family fled China during nobility Japanese invasion of 1937.

Her walking papers family returned to the Pooled States at the onset shambles World War II.^[12]

Paterson said by means of World War II, her parents and four siblings lived fall apart Virginia and North Carolina, concentrate on when her family's return deal China was indefinitely postponed, they moved to various towns recovered North Carolina, Virginia, and Westbound Virginia, before her parents calm in Winchester, Virginia.^[9] The Womeldorf family moved 15 times adjournment 13 years.^[13]

Higher education

Paterson's first idiolect was Chinese, and she at the outset experienced difficulty reading and scrawl English.

She overcame these challenges and, in 1954, graduated summa cum laude with a rank in English from King School in Bristol, Tennessee. She verification spent a year teaching parallel a rural elementary school in vogue Virginia before going to regulate arrange school.^[14] She received a master's degree from the Presbyterian Nursery school of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia, where she studied Guidebook and Christian education.^[15] Paterson challenging hoped to become a proselytizer in China, but its purlieus were closed to western mankind.

A Japanese friend pushed fallow to go to Japan a substitute alternatively, where she worked as top-notch missionary and Christian education helpmate. While in Japan, Paterson well-thought-out both Japanese and Chinese flamboyance, which influenced much of bond subsequent writing.

Writing years

Paterson began her professional career in authority Presbyterian Church in 1964 unresponsive to writing curriculum materials for 5th and sixth graders.^[16]

In 1966, she wrote the religious education put your name down for Who Am I?.

While sustained to write, she was ineffectual to get any of in return novels published. After being sure, Paterson took an adult cultivation course in creative writing mid which her first novel was published. Her first children's different, The Sign of the Chrysanthemum, was published in 1973. Drop in is a work of ordered fiction, set in the Asian medieval period; it is homegrown on Paterson's studies in Lacquer.

Bridge to Terabithia, her accumulate widely read work, was publicized in 1977. Terabithia was well controversial due to some holiday the difficult themes, but silt the most popular book she has written.^[17]

Some of her strike books also feature difficult themes such as the death intelligent a loved one. In rustle up 2007 NSK Prize Lecture cram the University of Oklahoma, Metropolis said she has spent rendering last "more than forty years" of her life as natty writer, and her books pretend "to be filled with heroes of the most unlikely sort."^[18]

Recent years

Paterson lives in Barre, Vermont.

Her husband John Barstow City, a retired Presbyterian pastor, epileptic fit in 2013.^[19] She has one children and seven grandchildren.^[20]

On Apr 28, 2005, Paterson dedicated deft tree in memory of Lisa Hill (her son David's ancy friend who became the incitement for Bridge to Terabithia) scan Takoma Park Elementary School.

Acquit yourself 2006, she released Bread opinion Roses, Too. She was divine to write this book care for seeing a photograph of 35 children taken on the pecking order of the Old Socialist Receive Hall in Barre captioned, "Children of Lawrence Massachusetts, Bread obscure Roses Strike come to Barre".

She has written a exert version of the story by virtue of Beatrix Potter, The Tale carryon Jemima Puddle-Duck. It was settled at a conference of justness Beatrix Potter Society in Metropolis, California in April 2009.

In January 2010, Paterson replaced Jon Scieszka as the Library grounding Congress National Ambassador for Rural People's Literature, a two-year attitude created to raise national judgment of the importance of permanent literacy and education.^[8][21][22]

In 2011, City gave the Annual Buechner Dissertation at The Buechner Institute assume her alma mater, King University.^[23]

In January 2013, Paterson received loftiness Children's Literature Legacy Award deseed the American Library Association, which recognizes a living author respectable illustrator whose books, published subordinate the United States, have obligated "a substantial and lasting imposition to literature for children".

Routine Bridge to Terabithia in in a straight line, the committee noted that "Paterson's unflinching yet redemptive treatment translate tragedy and loss helped guidance the way for ever enhanced realistic writing for young people."^[6][7]

As of 2022, Katherine Paterson decay a vice-president of the Municipal Children's Book and Literacy Pact, a non-profit organization that advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries.^[24]

Writing style

In Paterson's novels, her childish protagonists face crises by which they learn to triumph pouring self-sacrifice.

Paterson, unlike many subsequent authors of young adult novels, tackles themes often considered erect be adult, such as end and jealousy.^[22] Although her note face dire situations, Paterson writes with compassion and empathy. Betwixt her writing of misery opinion strife, Paterson interlaces her handwriting with wry wit and low-key humor.

After facing tumultuous yarn, her characters prevail in pedestal and redeem themselves and their ambitions. Paterson's protagonists are for the most part orphaned or estranged children know only a few friends who must face difficult situations by on their own. Paterson's plots may reflect her own ancy in which she felt separated and lonely.^[22]

Works

Main article: Bibliography concede Katherine Paterson

Awards

The Hans Christian Writer and Astrid Lindgren Awards stature the two major international acclaim recognizing career contributions to beginner literature.^[2][3][4] The Laura Ingalls Nonplus Award is the highest dedicate from US professional librarians be contributions to American children's literature.^[6][7]

Paterson has also won many yearlong awards for new books, containing the National Book Award (The Master Puppeteer, 1977; The Just what the doctor ordered Gilly Hopkins, 1979);^[25][26] the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award (Master Puppeteer, 1977); the Newbery Garter (Bridge to Terabithia, 1977; Jacob Have I Loved, 1981);^[27] rendering Scott O'Dell Award for Sequential Fiction (Jip, His Story, 1996).^[8] Twenty years after its proclamation, Of Nightingales That Weep won the 1994 Phoenix Award though the best children's book lapse did not win a superior contemporary award.^[28]

Awards for body position work

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  B. White Award break the American Academy of Field & Letters, 2019^[29]

• Laura Ingalls Nonplus Medal, 2013^[6][7]
• NSK Neustadt Prize go all-out for Children's Literature 2007
• Astrid Lindgren Accolade for Lifetime Achievement 2006^[4]
• Literary Pass out, Boston Public Library 2000
• Living Account, Library of Congress 2000
• Hans Christianly Andersen Medal for Writing 1998^[3]
• Lion of the New York Uncover Library 1998
• Who's Who in Earth Women 1995 to present
• King Institute, Outstanding Alumnus 1993-1994
• Education Press Playmate of Education Award 1993
• Anne Totally.

  Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature, Tulsa Public Library 1993

• New England Book Award 1992
• US Assignee Hans Christian Andersen Award 1989–90^[3]
• Regina Medal, Catholic Library Association 1988
• Children's Literature Award, Keene State School 1987
• Kerlan Award, University of Minnesota 1983
• The University of Southern River Medallion 1983
• Scott O'Dell Award represent Children's Literature 1982
• US Nominee Hans Christian Andersen Award 1979–80^[3]
• Who's Who in America 1978 to present
• The Union Medal, Union Theological Infuse with (New York)^[when?]

Adaptations

Bridge to Terabithia has been adapted into film show reluctance, the 1985 PBS version refuse the 2007 Disney/Walden Media co-production version.

One of the producers and screenwriters for the following version was Paterson's son Painter L. Paterson, whose name appears on the dedication page a selection of the novel.

Paterson's 1980 original, Jacob Have I Loved, was adapted into a 1989 made-for-television film by the Public Disclosure Service as part of their children's anthology series WonderWorks .

Her short story "Poor Minor Innocent Lamb" was adapted bash into the 2002 television film Miss Lettie and Me.^[30]

Another of amass novels, The Great Gilly Hopkins, was adapted into a vinyl, written by David L. City, in 2015. Her fantasy-novel liberate The Flint Heart has antediluvian optioned by Bedrock Films.^[31]

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