Awards & Winners

Alice Dalgliesh

Date of Birth 07-October-1893
Place of Birth Trinidad
(Trinidad and Tobago)
Nationality United States of America, Trinidad and Tobago
Profession Editor, Writer, Author, Publisher
Alice Dalgliesh, "a pioneer in the field of children's historical fiction", was a naturalized American author and publisher who wrote over 40 fiction and non-fiction books, many of them for children. Three of her books received the Newbery Honor Award; the partially autobiographical The Silver Pencil, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, and The Courage of Sarah Noble, which also won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. As the founding editor of Scribner's and Sons Children's Book Division, Dalgliesh published works by award-winning authors and illustrators including Robert A. Heinlein, Marcia Brown, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Katherine Milhous, Will James, Leonard Weisgard, and Leo Politi. Her prominence in the field of children's literature led to her being appointed the first president of the Children's Book Council, a national nonprofit trade association of children's book publishers and presses.

Awards by Alice Dalgliesh

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alice Dalgliesh.

1955


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : The Courage of Sarah Noble

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal The Courage of Sarah Noble

1953


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

1945


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : The Silver Pencil

Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal The Silver Pencil