Laura C. Stevenson

 

Laura C. Stevenson is the award-winning author of four novels for young adults and two for adults, as well as the author of a monograph on Elizabethan literature and society, several articles on the Golden Age of Children’s Literature, and three essays on deafness. She was trained as a historian at the University of Michigan and Yale University, and she taught writing and humanities at Marlboro College from 1986 to 2013.

Her grants and fellowships include:

  • American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid, 1975.

  • Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard, 1982-83.

  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, 1996-1997.

Her literary award prizes include:

  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher List Top Ten, 1990-91; and Master List, 1992-93;

  • William Allen White Children's Book Award Nominee, 1992-93;

  • Mark Twain Award, 1992-93.

  • South Carolina State Librarians' Award, 1992-93;

  • Nebraska Golden Sower Award, 1993-94;

  • Child Study Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College, starred book, 1993 list;

  • South Carolina State Librarians' Award List, 1994;

  • Walter Sullivan Prize for critical writing.

She lives in her family’s old summer house in Vermont. Visit Laura’s website to learn more.


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