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Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing The Cat Who Went to Heaven as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." In 1968 she was a highly commended runner-up for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's writers.




Life


Elizabeth Coatsworth was born May 31, 1893, to Ida Reid and William T. Coatsworth, a prosperous grain merchant in Buffalo, New York. She attended Buffalo Seminary, a private girls' school, and spent summers with her family on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie. She began traveling as a child, visiting the Alps and Egypt at age five.: 97  Coatsworth graduated from Vassar College in 1915 as Salutatorian. In 1916 she received a Master of Arts from Columbia University. She then traveled to eastern Asia, riding horseback through the Philippines, exploring Indonesia and China, and sleeping in a Buddhist monastery. These travels would later influence her writing.: 97 
In 1929, she married writer Henry Beston, with whom she had two daughters, Margaret and Catherine.: 97  They lived at Hingham, Massachusetts, and Chimney Farm in Nobleboro, Maine. Her daughter, Kate Barnes (1932–2013), would go on to become accomplished in writing in her own right, being named the first Poet Laureate of Maine.
Elizabeth Coatsworth died at her home in Nobleboro, August 31, 1986. Her papers are held in the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota and Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, with a small archive from late in her career in the de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. There is also a collection of her papers at the Maine Women Writers Collection held at the University of New England, Portland, Maine.




Career


Coatsworth began her career publishing her poetry in magazines. Her first book was a poetry collection for adults, Fox Footprints, in 1912. A conversation with her friend, Louise Seaman, who had just founded the first children's book publishing department in the United States at Macmillan, led Coatsworth to write her first children's book, The Cat and the Captain.: 97  In 1930 she published The Cat Who Went to Heaven. The story of an artist who is painting a picture of Buddha for a group of monks, it won the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".
Nineteenth-Century Children's Writers says "Coatsworth reached her apogee in her nature writing, notably The Incredible Tales". These four books were published for adults in the 1950s. They tell the story of the Perdrys, a family living in the forests of northern Maine who may not be entirely human.
Coatsworth had a long career, publishing over 90 books from 1910 to her autobiography and final book in 1976.: 96 




Selected works






= For children

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The Cat and the Captain, illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay (attributed as Gertrude Kaye), Macmillan, 1927
The Cat Who Went to Heaven, ill. Lynd Ward, Macmillan, 1930
The Golden Horseshoe, ill. Robert Lawson, Macmillan, 1935
Sword of the Wilderness, ill. Harve Stein, Macmillan, 1936
Alice-All-by-Herself, ill. Marguerite de Angeli, Macmillan, 1937
Dancing Tom, ill. Grace Paull, Macmillan, 1938
You Shall have a Carriage, ill. Henry Clarence Pitz, Macmillan, 1941
Runaway Home, ill. Gustaf Tenggren, Row, Peterson and Company, 1942
Indian Mound Farm, ill. Fermin Rocker, Macmillan, 1943
Up Hill and Down: Stories, ill. James Davis, Knopf, 1947
Night and the Cat, ill. Foujita, Macmillan, 1950
Dollars for Luck, ill. George and Doris Hauman, Macmillan, 1951; reissued 1972 as The Sailing Hatrack, Blackie (UK)
Cat Stories, ill. Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Simon & Schuster, 1953
Dog Stories, ill. Rojankovsky, Simon & Schuster, 1953
Old Whirlwind: The Story of Davy Crockett, ill. Manning Lee, Macmillan, 1953
Horse Stories, by Kate Barnes and Coatsworth, ill. Rojankovsky, Simon & Schuster, 1954
The Peddler's Cart, ill. Zhenya Gay, Macmillan, 1956
Pika and the Roses, ill. Kurt Wiese, Pantheon, 1959
Lonely Maria, ill. Evaline Ness, Pantheon, 1960
The Noble Doll, ill. Leo Politi, Viking, 1961
Chimney Farm Bedtime Stories, by Henry Beston and Coatsworth, ill. Maurice Day, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966
The Lucky Ones: Five Journeys Toward a Home, ill. Janet Doyle, Macmillan, 1968
Under the Green Willow, ill Janina Domanska, Macmillan, 1971
The Wanderers, ill. Trina Schart Hyman, Scholastic, 1972
Pure Magic, ill. Ingrid Fetz, Macmillan 1973; reissued 1975 as The Werefox, Collier (US), and The Fox Boy, Blackie (UK)
Marra's World, ill. Krystyna Turska, Greenwillow, 1975

Sally series
The five historical novels featuring "Sally" were all illustrated by Helen Sewell and published by Macmillan US.

Away Goes Sally, 1934
Five Bushel Farm, 1938
The Fair American ,1940
The White Horse , 1942
The Wonderful Day, 1946




= For adults

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Novels
Here I Stay, Coward McCann, 1938
The Trunk, Macmillan, 1941
The Incredible Tales
The Enchanted, Pantheon, 1951
Silky: An Incredible Tale, Pantheon, 1953
Mountain Bride: An Incredible Tale, Pantheon 1954
The White Room, Pantheon, 1958
Poetry
Fox Footprints, Knopf, 1923, poetry
Country Poems, Macmillan, 1942
The Creaking Stair, Coward McCann, 1949
Other
The Sun's Diary: A Book of Days for Any Year, Macmillan, 1929
Country Neighborhood, Macmillan, 1945
Maine Ways, Macmillan, 1947
Especially Maine: The Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence; (editor), Stephen Greene, 1970
Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography, Stephen Greene, 1976




See also






References






External links



"Elizabeth Coatsworth". Retrieved May 30, 2012.
"Elizabeth Coatsworth Life and Books". Old Children's Books. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
"Interview with Kate Beston about her parents". Friends of Henry Beston. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
Keillor, Garrison. "Poems by Elizabeth Coatsworth". Writer's Almanac. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
Elizabeth Coatsworth at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Elizabeth Coatsworth at Library of Congress, with 132 library catalog records
Works by Elizabeth Coatsworth at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Elizabeth Coatsworth Papers, Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi (de Grummond Children's Literature Collection)

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