{"id":2132,"date":"2013-09-30T08:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T15:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2018-12-17T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:21:05","slug":"sorensen-virginia-eggertsen-1912-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"SORENSEN, VIRGINIA EGGERTSEN, 1912-1991"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer. Born– Feb. 12, 1912 in Provo, Utah. Parents– Claud E. and Helen El Deva Blackett Eggertson. Married– Frederick Sorenson, August 16,\u00a01933.\u00a0 Children–two. \u00a0Married– Alec Waugh, July 15, 1969.\u00a0 Education– Brigham Young University, B.A., 1933;\u00a0further study at the\u00a0School of Journalism at University of Missouri and at Stanford University .\u00a0 Lived in several university towns where her first husband taught, including Auburn.\u00a0 Published poems, articles, and stories in journals and periodicals, as well as adult \u00a0novels and children’s books; taught creative writing at Auburn and other universities and started a\u00a0student literary magazine. Active in social causes, including the provision of public library services in Alabama. A member of the Authors League and International PEN. Received a Guggenheim fellowship to Mexico, \u00a01946-1947 and to Denmark, 1954-55.\u00a0 Received the Children’s Book Award from the Child Study Association of America in 1955 for Plain Girl, and\u00a0the Newbery Medal for Miracles on Maple Hill in 1957.\u00a0 Died December 24, 1991.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writers Directory, 1982; newspaper clippings at Birmingham Public Library; Contemporary Authors online.; Something about the Author, vol. 15 (1993).<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Around the Corner. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1971.<\/p>\n

Curious Missie. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1953.<\/p>\n

The Evening and the Morning. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1949.<\/p>\n

Friends of the Road. New York; Atheneum, 1978.<\/p>\n

The House Next Door; Utah 1896. New York; Scribner, 1954.<\/p>\n

Kingdom Come. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1960.<\/p>\n

A Little Lower than Angels. New York; Knopf, 1942.<\/p>\n

Lotte’s Locket. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1964.<\/p>\n

The Man with the Key. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1974.<\/p>\n

Many Heavens; a New Mormon Novel. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1954.<\/p>\n

Miracles on Maple Hill. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1956.<\/p>\n

The Neighbors. New York; Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946.<\/p>\n

This Star. New York; Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946.<\/p>\n

Plain Girl. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1955.<\/p>\n

The Proper Gods. New York; Harcourt, Brace, 1951.<\/p>\n

Where Nothing is Long Ago; Memories of a Mormon Childhood. New York; Harcourt Brace, 1963.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of the papers of Virginia Sorensen is held by the Kerlan Children’s Literature\u00a0Research Collection\u00a0at the University of Minnesota Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Writer. Born– Feb. 12, 1912 in Provo, Utah. Parents– Claud E. and Helen El Deva Blackett Eggertson. Married– Frederick Sorenson, August 16,\u00a01933.\u00a0 Children–two. \u00a0Married– Alec Waugh, July 15, 1969.\u00a0 Education– Brigham Young University, B.A., 1933;\u00a0further study at the\u00a0School of Journalism at University of Missouri and at Stanford University .\u00a0 Lived in several university towns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9150,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}