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Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at The Park School in Brooklandville, Maryland. She received the 2008 Newbery Medal for her children's book entitled Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, and the 2013 Newbery Honor for her children's book, Splendors and Glooms. She also won the 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the 2015 National Jewish Book Award, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award for her young adult book, The Hired Girl. Her other published books are The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy, A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama, which won a Cybils Award that year, The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm, The Night Fairy, and Princess Cora and the Crocodile. Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and graduated in 1977.
BornBaltimore, Maryland, United States
OccupationWriter, and Lower School Librarian at Park School
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materGoucher College BA
Notable worksGood Masters! Sweet Ladies, Splendors and Glooms, The Hired Girl
Notable awardsCybils Award, 2006 A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama, Newbery Medal, 2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies, Newbery Honor, 2013 Splendors and Glooms, Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2016 The Hired Girl, National Jewish Book Award, 2016 The Hired Girl, Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2016 The Hired Girl

About Laura Amy Schlitz

Children's Author Laura Amy Schlitz was born on May 28, 1955 in Maryland, United States (She's 68 years old now).

Author of children's books who has won the Newbery Medal. Splendors and Glooms, Good Masters! are among her best-known pieces. Greetings, Ladies! A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama and Voices from a Medieval Village.

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Laura Amy Schlitz before becoming famous

Laura Amy Schlitz was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1955 is also the year of Goat (羊) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She worked in a private school in Brooklandville, Maryland, as both a storyteller and a librarian.

Achievement of Laura Amy Schlitz

Under the pen name Chloe Cheshire, she penned the romantic novel A Gypsy at Almack's.

Laura Amy Schlitz's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She grew up in Maryland and graduated from Goucher College there in 1977.

Laura Amy Schlitz Collabed with

Children's Author Dan Gutman, a fellow American children's author, made a name for himself with his Baseball Card Adventures series.

Laura Amy Schlitz Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Laura Amy Schlitz updated on March 07 2023.