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Katherine Paterson
Born 31 October 1932 (1932-10-31) (age 88)
Jiangsu, China
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Period 1966–
Genre Children's and Young Adult Fiction

Katherine Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Newbery Award-winning American author of books for children.

Selected works

In a summary of writings by and about Katherine Paterson, OCLC/WorldCat includes roughly 200+ works in 1,100+ publications in 29 languages and 99,000+ library holdings.

  • The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (1973)
  • Of Nightingales That Weep (1974)
  • The Master Puppeteer (1975)
  • Bridge to Terabithia (1977)
  • The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978)
  • Jacob Have I Loved (1980)
  • Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom (1983)
  • Come Sing, Jimmy Jo (1985)
  • Park's Quest (1988)
  • Lyddie (1991)
  • Flip-Flop Girl (1994)
  • Jip, His Story (1996)
  • Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight (1998)
  • Preacher’s Boy (1999)
  • The Same Stuff as Stars (2002)
  • Bread and Roses, Too (2006)
  • The Day of the Pelican (2009)
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