Anna Gertrude Hall

American author
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Quick Facts

IntroAmerican author
PlacesUnited States of America
isWriter Children's writer
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Female
Death1967
The details

Biography

Anna Gertrude Hall (1882–1967) was a well known children and adolescents author. Honored with a Newbery Medal honor in 1941 for her novel Nansen.

Anna Gertrude Hall was born in West Bloomfield, New York to Myron Edwin and Anna (Sterling) Hall. She received an A.B in 1906 from Leland Stanford Junior University. She also earned a B.L.S in 1916 from New York State Library School. Hall worked at Stanford University as a librarian and cataloger between the years of 1906 and 1962.

Works

  • The Truth about Camilla (1913)
  • Miss Ingalis (1919)
  • Toward the North Pole (1964)
  • Cyrus Holt and the Civil War (1964)
  • The Cyrus Holt (1964)
  • Nansen (1964)
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