Ruth White (children's author)

For other people named Ruth White, see Ruth White (disambiguation).

Ruth C. White (born March 15, 1942) is an American children's writer. Her novel Belle Prater's Boy was a Newbery Honor Book in 1997.

Biography

Although Ruth White's family were extremely poor, her parents had a great love of literature. She was educated at small, badly resourced county schools, but praises her "excellent, caring teachers".[1]

When she was six years old, her father, who was a coal miner, was killed in a brawl (and the attacker sent to prison for 20 years). Her mother moved to a place near the town of .Whitewood, Virginia. When White was in the eighth grade the family moved to Michigan, but she returned to Grundy to finish high-school while living with an aunt and uncle. These incidents form part of the story in her book Sweet Creek Holler.

White's book Belle Prater's Boy was named a 1997 Newbery Honor book. White and her sisters grew up in the coal-mining town of Whitewood, Virginia. They played in the hills and creeks, enjoyed family read-alouds, and sang every song they heard. White has been a teacher and a school librarian in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. For a while, she lived in Virginia Beach, but now she lives in Pennsylvania.

Work

References

  1. ↑ Stimmen, Jane (March 6, 2009). "An interview with Ruth White, author of Little Audrey". World Socialist Web Site. ICFI. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
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