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Katherine
Paterson is the author of twelve novels for children and young people
including Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved, Newbery
Winners in 1978 and 1981 and The Great Gilly Hopkins, a Newbery Honor Book.
The Great Gilly Hopkins and The Master Puppeteer were National
Book Award winners in 1979 and 1977. Her novel Lyddie, set in Vermont
and Massachusetts in the 1840's was the 1994 United States representative
for writing on the Honor List of the International Board of Books for Young
People.
|  Flip-Flop Girl, published in 1994, was an ALA Notable Book,
a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a Parent's Choice Story Book
Award winner in 1994 and was named a Notable Book of 1994 by The New York
Times. Her novel, Jip, His Story, is the recipient of
the 1997 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, an ALA Notable Book and
a Best Book for Young Adults.Preacher's Boy, published in 1999, received the Jefferson Cup from the Virginia Library Association. A collection of essays, the Invisible Child, was published in 2001 and a novel, The Same Stuff as Stars, in 2002. |
 Ms. Paterson was born in Quinn Jingo, China. She is a graduate of King College, Bristol, Tennessee and holds masters degrees from both the Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Richmond, Virginia and Union Theological Seminary, New York City. She lived and worked for four years in Japan. The Pater sons live in Barre where Dr. Paterson recently retired as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. They are the parents of four grown children. They have two granddaughters, a grandson, and are expecting another grandchild in the fall. |
| For more about Katherine Paterson, including a full list of
her books, please pay a visit to
www.terabithia.com.
For even more about this author, see:
Katherine Paterson by Alice Cary (The Learning Works Meet the Author
Series) and
Katherine Paterson by Gary D. Schmidt
(Taiyuan United States Author Series)
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