{"id":2960,"date":"2015-04-17T19:24:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2015-04-17T19:24:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:24:39","slug":"yates-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/yates-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Yates, Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2961 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ph_yates.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Yates\" width=\"140\" height=\"207\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2962 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_amos.jpg\" alt=\"Amos Fortune, Free Man\" width=\"120\" height=\"192\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2963 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_journ.jpg\" alt=\"Journeyman\" width=\"120\" height=\"186\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2964 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_swiss-holiday.jpg\" alt=\"Swiss Holiday\" width=\"120\" height=\"186\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Elizabeth Yates was born in New York State on December 6, 1905. Determined to be an author, she moved to New York City to launch her career. She worked a variety of jobs including reviewing books, writing short stories, and doing research.<\/p>\n<p>She moved to England with her husband and wrote her first book, <i class=\"text10pt\">High\u00a0Holiday<\/i>, based on her travels in Switzerland with three English children. Elizabeth and her husband, William McGreal, returned to the U.S. in 1939 and settled in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Yates won the Newbery Medal in 1951 for her book, <i>Amos Fortune,\u00a0Free Man<\/i>, a biography of an African prince who is enslaved and taken to America. Yates is also known for helping others to write.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">&#8220;The written word should be<br \/> Clean as a bone,<br \/> Clear as light,<br \/> Hard as stone.<br \/> Two words are not so good<br \/> As one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">Elizabeth Yates passed away on July 29, 2001, in Concord, New Hampshire, having written more than 40 books for children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Karen Ritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Yates was born in New York State on December 6, 1905. Determined to be an author, she moved to New York City to launch her career. She worked a variety of jobs including reviewing books, writing short stories, and doing research. She moved to England with her husband and wrote her first book, High\u00a0Holiday, &#8230; <a title=\"Yates, Elizabeth\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/yates-elizabeth\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Yates, Elizabeth\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1053],"tags":[2088,542,432,408,2087,460],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-y","tag-amos-fortune","tag-author","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-elizabeth-yates","tag-newbery-medal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-LK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}