Florence Crannell Means (May 15, 1891 – November 19, 1980) was an American writer for children and young adults.[1][2] For her 1945 novel, The Moved-Outers, she received a Newbery Medal honor award and the Child Study Association of America Children's Book Award.
Florence Crannell Means | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 15, 1891 Baldwinsville, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 19, 1980 (aged 89) Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | The Moved-Outers (1945) |
| Notable awards | Children's Book Award (1945) |
| Spouse | Carl Bell Means |
Biography
editFlorence Crannell Means was born May 15, 1891, in Baldwinsville, New York.
In 1946 her novel about Japanese internment, The Moved-Outers, won a Newbery Medal honor award and the Children's Book Award (now Josette Frank Award) from the Child Study Association of America.[3]
In his "Without Evasion" essay in The Horn Book Magazine, Jan/Feb 1945, Howard Pease says: "Only at infrequent intervals do you find a story intimately related to this modern world, a story that takes up a modern problem and thinks it through without evasion. Of our thousands of books, I can find scarcely half a dozen that merit places on this almost vacant shelf in our libraries; and of our hundreds of authors, I can name only three who are doing anything to fill this void in children's reading. These three authors – may someone present each of them with a laurel wreath – are Doris Gates, John R. Tunis, and Florence Crannell Means."[4] Many of Means' books dealt with the experiences of minorities in America, such as Japanese Americans in The Moved-Outers and African Americans in Shuttered Windows.[5]
She married Carl Bell Means and died November 19, 1980, in Boulder, Colorado.
Works
edit- Rafael and Consuelo with Harriet Louise Fullen, Friendship Press, 1929
- A Candle in the Mist: A Story for Girls, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931
- Penny for Luck: A Story of the Rockies, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935
- Shuttered Windows, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938
- The Moved-Outers, Houghton Mifflin, 1945; reprint Walker, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8027-7386-9
- Great Day in the Morning, Houghton Mifflin, 1946
- The Silver Fleece: A Story of the Spanish in New Mexico, Winston, 1950
- Hetty of the Grande Deluxe, Houghton Mifflin, 1951
- The Rains Will Come, illustrator Fred Kabotie, Houghton Mifflin, 1954
- Sagebrush Surgeon, Friendship Press, NY, 1955
- Knock at the Door, Emmy, Houghton Mifflin, 1956
- Reach for a Star, Houghton Mifflin, 1957
- Emmy and the Blue Door, Houghton Mifflin, 1959
- Sunlight on the Hopi Mesas: The Story of Abigail E. Johnson, Judson Press, 1960
- Tolliver, Houghton Mifflin, 1963
- Carvers' George: A Biography of George Washington Carver, illustrator Harve Stein, E.M. Hale, 1963
- It Takes All Kinds, Houghton Mifflin, 1964
- A Bowlful of Stars, A Story of the Pioneer West, Houghton Mifflin, 1934
References
edit- ^ [1] Archived October 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ New York State Literary Tree: Florence Crannell Means
- ^ Hare, Peter. "Past Winners". Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ "Library Trends, Spring 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-05-28.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Freedom's Journeys Through Shuttered Windows (1938), Words by Heart (1968), and True North (1996)" by Kathy N. Headley The ALAN Review, Fall 2002
External links
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- Works by Florence Crannell Means at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Florence Crannell Means at the Internet Archive
- "Early Images of American Minorities: Rediscovering Florence Crannell Means", The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 11, Number 1, June 1987, pp. 98–115
- Anita Silvey, ed. (1995). Children's books and their creators. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-395-65380-7.
- Florence Crannell Means at Library of Congress, with 47 library catalog records