Emily Cheney Neville
Born(1919-12-28)December 28, 1919
Manchester, Connecticut
DiedDecember 14, 1997(1997-12-14) (aged 77)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBryn Mawr College (1940)
SpouseGlenn Neville (m. 1948)
Children5
AwardsNewbery Medal (1964)

Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 – December 14, 1997)[1] was an American author. Her first book, It's Like This, Cat (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964.[2]

Personal life and education

Neville was born December 28, 1919 in Manchester, Connecticut to Howell and Anne Bunce Cheney, and was the youngest of her siblings.[1] She attended Oxford School in Hartford, then graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in economics in 1940.[1]

Neville married Glenn Neville, a newspaperman,[3] in 1948,[1][4] and the couple had five children.[1][4] After her children were born, she took a break from writing until all her children were school aged.[1] The family lived in New York City.[3]

Neville died December 14, 1997.[1]

Career

After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1940, Neville worked for the New York Daily News and the New York Daily Mirror newspapers.[3]

Her first book, It's Like This, Cat (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964.[2] Her other works include: Berries Goodman (1965); The Seventeenth-Street Gang (1966); Traveler From a Small Kingdom (1968); and Fogarty (1969).[4]

"Her books have been praised by critics for their emphasis on realism and honest depiction of adolescent life," especially urban life.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Neville, Emily Cheney". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  2. 1 2 "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present". American Library Association. 2007-05-16. Archived from the original on 2007-06-16. Retrieved 2007-06-10.
  3. 1 2 3 "Emily Cheney Neville". HarperCollins. Archived from the original on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Emily Cheney Neville Papers". The Children's Literature Research Collections. University of Minnesota. Retrieved 2007-06-10.


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