Profile of Irene Hunt on Famous Like Me

Irene Hunt (May 18, 1907 - May 18, 2001) is an American author of historical fiction for children and young adults. She was born in Pontiac, Illinois and died in Savoy, Illinois. Hunt graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1939 and earned a masters degree from the University of Minnesota in 1946. After teaching psychology at the University of South Dakota, she returned to Illinois to teach in the Cicero, Illinois public school system. Her writing career began in 1964 with the publication of Across Five Aprils, a Civil War era novel that earned her a Newbery Honor citation, among several other awards. Her next novel, Up a Road Slowly, won the 1967 Newbery Medal.

Bibliography

• Across Five Aprils (1964)
• Up a Road Slowly (1966)
• Trail of Apple Blossoms (1968) (illustrated by Don Bolognese)
• No Promises in the Wind (1970)
• The Lottery Rose (1976)
• William (1978)
• Claws of a Young Century (1980)
• The Everlasting Hills (1985) uhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm ;lufsdljhfdlkjvnc;iofhgiuyiupg;kjg;kljlkjklfjkl;jg;kfjgk

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Select Awards

• 1964 Charles W. Follett Award for Across Five Aprils
• 1965 Newbery Honor Book citation for Across Five Aprils
• 1965 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award for Across Five Aprils
• 1965 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Across Five Aprils
• 1967 Newbery Medal for Up a Road Slowly
• 1971 Charles W. Follett Award for No Promises in the Wind
• 1985 Parents' Choice Award for The Everlasting Hills

References

• "Irene Hunt", Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, entry updated 02/25/2002 .

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