Sorensen, Virginia (1912-1991), was an American author. She won the 1957 Newbery Medal for her children’s book Miracles on Maple Hill, the story of a 10-year-old girl in the farmland of Pennsylvania. Her story Plain Girl, about the life of a small Amish girl, won the Children’s Book Award of the Child Study Association of America in 1955.
Sorensen also wrote Curious Missie (1953), The House Next Door (1954), Lotte’s Locket (1964), a number of adult novels, and a collection of short stories. She was born on Feb. 17, 1912, in Provo, Utah, and died on Dec. 24, 1991.
