Available for use in Manuscripts Division reading room.
Copyright has been retained by the author.
Virginia Sorensen Manuscript (Mss 14), Literary Manuscripts Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen was born in 1912 in Provo, Utah. She
became a student journalist during high school and graduated from Brigham Young
University in 1934. She married Frederick Sorensen and began a family. Her
first book, influenced by her Mormon background, was published in 1942. She
began writing books for children, and was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1957 for
her book
The collection comprises a corrected typewritten manuscript, which
became the first part of the novel published as
See also the Virginia Sorensen Papers in the Children's Literature Research Collections.
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