Carol Brink

Young Adult Author

Birthday December 28, 1895

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Idaho

DEATH DATE Aug 15, 1981 (85)

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About

A popular author of young-adult fiction, she won both a Newbery Medal and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for her 1935 novel Caddie Woodlawn. Her other works include Baby Island, Goody O'Grumpity, and Lad with a Whistle.

Before Fame

She studied at both the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Idaho.

Trivia

She published her first novel, Anything Can Happen on the River, in 1934.

Family Life

With her husband Raymond, she had two children: David and Norah.

Associated With

She won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.