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Mollie Hunter (1922–2012)

Author of A Stranger Came Ashore

Includes the names: Mollie Hunt, Molly Hunter, Mollie Hunter, Mollie Hunter McVeigh, Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith, Maureen Mollie Hunter McVeigh McIllwraith

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Date of birth
1922-06-30
Date of death
2012-07-31
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Gender
female
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Scotland
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Preston Lodge School, East Lothian, Scotland
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novelist
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teacher (creative writing)
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Society of Authors (past chairman ∙ Society of Authors in Scotland)
Awards and honors
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1975)
Child Study Association of America's Children's Books of the Year citations, for The Ferlie, 1968, The Walking Stones, 1970, The Thirteenth Member, 1971, A Sound of Chariots and The Haunted Mountain, both 1972, The Stronghold, 1974, A Stranger Came Ashore, 1975, Talent Is Not Enough, 1976, A Furl of Fairy Wind, 1977, and Cat, Herself, 1987; Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival honor book citation, 1970, for The Lothian Run; New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year citations, for The Haunted Mountain and A Sound of Chariots, both 1972, and A Stranger Came Ashore, 1975; Children's Book Award from the Child Study Association of America, 1973, for A Sound of Chariots; Scottish Arts Council Award, 1973, for The Haunted Mountain; Carnegie Medal for Children's Book of Outstanding Merit, British Library Association, 1974, and Silver Pencil Award (Holland), 1975, both for The Stronghold; A Stranger Came Ashore was selected one of School Library Journal's Best Children's Books, 1975, and was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, 1976; The Wicked One was selected one of School Library Journal's Best Books for Spring and was selected a Scottish Arts Council Award Book, both 1977; You Never Knew Her as I Did! was selected one of the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age, and a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies by the National Council of Social Studies and the Children's Book Council, both 1982; Cat, Herself was chosen one of the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults, and one of School Library Journal's Best Books for Young Adults, both 1986; Phoenix Award, 1992, for A Sound of Chariots (Holland)
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Maureen Mollie Hunter McVeigh McIlwraith, more commonly known as Mollie Hunter
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