Coatsworth, Elizabeth (1893-1986), was an American author best known for her children’s books. Much of her work deals with rural New England, but she also wrote fantasies and stories with settings in early American history and the Far East. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal for The Cat Who Went to Heaven (1930), which resembles a Japanese Buddhist folk tale.
Coatsworth’s other children’s books include Away Goes Sally (1934), Sword of the Wilderness (1936), Here I Stay (1938), Door to the North (1950), First Adventure (1950), The Enchanted (1951), Silky (1953), The White Room (1958), The Hand of Apollo (1965), They Walk in the Night (1969), Grandmother Cat and the Hermit (1970), and Under the Green Willow (1971). Coatsworth also wrote novels, poetry, and stories for adults. She was born on May 31, 1893, in Buffalo, New York. She died on Aug. 31, 1986.
