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Mollie Hunter

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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1922-06-30
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Scotland
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Preston Lodge School, East Lothian, Scotland
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teacher (creative writing)
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Society of Authors (past chairman ∙ Society of Authors in Scotland)
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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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