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Emily Cheney Neville
Born(1919-12-28)December 28, 1919
Manchester, Connecticut
DiedDecember 14, 1997(1997-12-14) (aged 77)
Keene Valley, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBryn Mawr College (1940)
SpouseGlenn Neville (m. 1948)
Children5
Awards

Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 – December 14, 1997) was an American author. Her first book, It's Like This, Cat (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964.

Personal life and education

Neville was born on December 28, 1919, in Manchester, Connecticut, to Howell and Anne Bunce Cheney, and was the youngest of her siblings. She attended Oxford School in Hartford, then graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in economics in 1940.

Neville married Glenn Neville, a newspaperman, in 1948, and the couple had five children. After her children were born, she took a break from writing until all her children were school aged. The family lived in New York City.

Neville died December 14, 1997 in Keene Valley, New York.

Career

After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1940, Neville worked for the New York Daily News and the New York Daily Mirror newspapers.

Her first book, It's Like This, Cat (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964. Her other works include Berries Goodman (1965); The Seventeenth-Street Gang (1966); Traveler From a Small Kingdom (1968); and Fogarty (1969).

"Her books have been praised by critics for their emphasis on realism and honest depiction of adolescent life," especially urban life.

In 1976, Neville received her J.D. from Albany Law School and began a private law practice, though she continued to write, publishing The Bridge in 1988 and The China Year in 1991.

Awards and honors

Awards for Neville's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
1964 It's Like This, Cat Newbery Medal Winner
1965 It's Like This, Cat Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee
1966 Berries Goodman Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winner
1967 Berries Goodman Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Neville, Emily Cheney". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2023-05-31. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  2. ^ "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present". American Library Association. 2007-05-16. Archived from the original on 2007-06-16. Retrieved 2007-06-10.
  3. ^ "Emily Cheney Neville". HarperCollins. Archived from the original on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
  4. ^ "Emily Cheney Neville Papers". The Children's Literature Research Collections. University of Minnesota. Archived from the original on 2007-06-13. Retrieved 2007-06-10.
  5. ^ Great authors of children's books. New York: Britannica Educational Publishing. 2014. ISBN 978-1-62275-096-2.
  6. ^ "Emily Cheney Neville". Britannica Kids. Archived from the original on 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  7. "The Seventeenth-Street Gang". Kirkus Reviews. 1966-09-01. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  8. "Traveller from a Small Kingdom". Kirkus Reviews. 1968-03-01. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  9. "Fogarty". Kirkus Reviews. 1969-11-01. Archived from the original on 2022-01-28. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  10. "Garden of Broken Glass". Kirkus Reviews. 1975-05-01. Archived from the original on 2023-12-09. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  11. "The Bridge". Kirkus Reviews. 1988-08-15. Archived from the original on 2023-12-09. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  12. "The China Year". Kirkus Reviews. 1991-05-15. Archived from the original on 2023-12-09. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  13. Anderson, Doris C. (1992). "Books for Children -- The China Year by Emily Cheney Neville". Childhood Education. 68 (3): 176.

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