Anna Gertrude Hall (1882–1967) was a well known children and young adult author. Honored with a Newbery Medal honor in 1941 for her novel, Nansen.
Anna Gertrude Hall | |
|---|---|
 Hall in 1913 | |
| Born | West Bloomfield, NY |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Children's, Tween, Young Adult |
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.[1][2]
In 1938 she published The Library Trustee with the American Library Association which was a handbook for helping library trustees understand their roles and responsibilities which was reviewed as being "indispensable" and "a practical reference book."[3]
Works
edit- The Truth about Camilla (1913)
- Toward the North Pole (1964)
- Cyrus Holt and the Civil War (1964)
- The Cyrus Holt (1964)
- Nansen (1941)
Awards
edit- Newbery Medal, 1941
References
edit- ^ "Archives & Special Collections · University of Minnesota Libraries". special.lib.umn.edu. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ^ "Anna Gertrude Hall". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ^ Commission, Mississippi Library (June 10, 2020). "Mississippi Libraries News 1938-01". Internet Archive. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
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