query: spouse alec waugh
supports: Virginia Sorensen, née Eggertsen, also credited as Virginia Sorenson (February 17, 1912, in Provo, Utah  December 24, 1991), was the author of the 1957 John Newbery Medal winning "Miracles on Maple Hill", based in the Erie, Pennsylvania region where she lived at the time. She grew up in Manti and American Fork, Utah. Her first novel, "A Little Lower Than the Angels", was written and published in 1942 while she resided in Terre Haute, Indiana, with her first husband Frederick C. Sorensen, a professor at Indiana State Teachers College, now Indiana State University. With its publication, Alfred Knopf declared, "I have seldom introduced a new novelist with the confidence I feel in the author of this remarkable book. It marks the debut, I believe, of a major American writer." She is considered "one of Utah's premiere gifts to literary America." Her first book for children, "Curious Missy", grew out of her efforts with a bookmobile in Alabama. She later divorced Sorensen and married Alec Waugh, son of Arthur Waugh and brother of Evelyn Waugh, in 1969. Her books are usually Mormon-themed. She received two Guggenheim fellowships, one in 1946 to study tribe of Mexican Indians, and one in 1954 to study in Denmark as regards the history of Sanpete Valley's settlers. John Newbery (9 July 1713  22 December 1767), called "The Father of Children's Literature", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market. He also supported and published the works of Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson. In recognition of his achievements in children's publishing, the Newbery Medal was named after him. Miracles on Maple Hill is a 1956 novel by Virginia Sorensen that won the 1957 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. The book was illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush. Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Sebastian and Julia. The novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy, Catholicism, and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte's coterie at Oxford University. A faithful and extremely well-received television adaptation of the novel was done in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981.  The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The award is given to the author of "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Named for John Newbery, an 18th-century English publisher of juvenile books, the Newbery was proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1921, making it the first children's book award in the world. The medal was designed by Rene Paul Chambellan and depicts an author giving his work (a book) to a boy and a girl to read.
  The Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are considered the two most prestigious awards for children's literature in the United States. Many bookstores and libraries have Newbery sections; popular television shows interview the winners; textbooks include lists of Newbery winners, and many master's and doctoral theses are written about them. Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903  10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires "Decline and Fall" (1928) and "A Handful of Dust" (1934), the novel "Brideshead Revisited" (1945) and the Second World War trilogy "Sword of Honour" (195261). Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century. Arthur Waugh (1866  1943) was an English author, literary critic, and publisher. He was the father of the authors Alec and Evelyn Waugh. Alexander Raban `` Alec '' Waugh ( 8 July 1898 -- 3 September 1981 ) , was a British novelist , the elder brother of the better - known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh , author , literary critic , and publisher . His first wife was Barbara Jacobs ( daughter of the writer William Wymark Jacobs ) , his second wife was Joan Chirnside and his third wife was Virginia Sorenson , author of the Newbery Medal -- winning Miracles on Maple Hill .
candidates: arthur frederick julia samuel johnson virginia virginia sorensen
answer: virginia sorensen