Wind of Spring, New York: Coward–McCann, 1945.

as The Journeyman, South Carolina: JourneyForth, 1990

Patterns on the Wall, New York: Knopf, 1943.Under the Little Fir, and other stories (illustrated by Nora S.Around the Year in Iceland (illustrated by Jon Nielson), Boston: Heath, 1942 (New World Neighbors).Haven for the Brave, New York: Knopf, 1941.Hans and Frieda in the Swiss Mountains, Wide World storybook series, New York: Thomas Nelson, 1939.Climbing Higher, an Iceland Adventure, London: A.C.In 1994, the Concord, New Hampshire Public Library created the Elizabeth Yates Award to honor an individual in the greater Concord area who is actively engaged in inspiring young people to read.Įlizabeth Yates' books have been described as 'the result of extensive research, a strong underlying belief in God, and a vivid imagination.' Yates had been a previous President of the Board, while her husband was the Association's first Executive Director. In the 1990s, the New Hampshire Association for the Blind began the William and Elizabeth Yates McGreal Society. In 1970, she was given the Sarah Josepha Hale Award 'in recognition of a distinguished body of work in the field of literature and letters'.

Mountain Born received a Newbery Honor in 1944, while in 1955 Rainbow Round the World received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Yates' novel, Amos Fortune, Free Man, received the Newbery Medal, the inaugural William Allen White Children's Book Award, and the Herald Tribune Award. In 1943, Patterns on the Wall received the Herald Tribune Award. Elizabeth Yates died Sunday at a hospice in Concord, New Hampshire on Jat the age of 95. She also served as the Director of the New Hampshire Association for the Blind. Yates conducted writer's workshops at the University of New Hampshire, the University of Connecticut, and Indiana University. Her passion for the land led her to write The Road Through Sandwich Notch, a book which was influential in preserving that portion of New Hampshire for inclusion in the White Mountain National Forest. Personal experience formed the basis of many of Yates' novels. They bought a farm, and a discovery of old artwork during the restoration of the farmhouse prompted Yates to write Patterns on the Wall. The couple returned to the United States in 1939, and settled in Peterborough, New Hampshire. In 1938, her first book, High Holiday, was an adult novel set in the Swiss Alps.

In 1929, she married William Henry and the couple moved to England, where they lived for the next 10 years. After her schooling was finished, she moved to Manhattan and began writing book reviews and other newspaper articles.

The Journeyman by Elizabeth Yates