Treviño << truh VEEN yoh >>, Elizabeth Borton de (1904-2001), was an American author. She won the 1966 Newbery Medal for I, Juan de Pareja (1965), a fictional biography of a Black man enslaved to the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. Her other books for children include A Carpet of Flowers (1955) and Nacar, the White Deer (1963). Her works for adults include the memoirs My Heart Lies South (1953), Where the Heart Is (1962), and The Greek of Toledo (1959), a novel about the painter El Greco.
Treviño was born in Bakersfield, California, on Sept. 2, 1904. She died on Dec. 2, 2001.
