Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Template:Short description Template:Infobox writer Eloise Jarvis McGraw (née Hamilton;<ref name="OregonEncyclopedia">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> December 9, 1915 – November 30, 2000) was an American author of children's books and young adult novels.<ref>Lauren Lynn McGraw, "Eloise Jarvis McGraw, 1915–2000," The Baum Bugle, Vol. 45 No. 2 (Autumn 2001), pp. 5-7.</ref>

Early life

Eloise Jarvis McGraw was born on December 9, 1915 in Houston, Texas. At age 8 her family moved to Oklahoma City, at which time she began writing.<ref name="NYTObituary">Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Template:Expand section McGraw's first professional writing was published in Jack and Jill magazine in 1949. She also published short stories in Cricket, Parents’ Magazine, and The Writer. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her first published book was Sawdust in His Shoes (1950), followed by a steady stream of works for both children and adults.<ref name="NYTObituary" /> Before turning fully to books, McGraw worked as a journalist.<ref name="OregonEncyclopedia" /> McGraw also contributed to the Oz series started by L. Frank Baum; working with her daughter, graphic artist and librarian Lauren Lynn McGraw, she wrote Merry Go Round in Oz (the last of the Oz books issued by Baum's publisher) and The Forbidden Fountain of Oz. The actual writing of the books was done entirely by Eloise; Lauren made story contributions significant enough for Eloise to assign her co-authorship credit. McGraw's The Rundelstone of Oz was published in 2000 without a credit to her daughter.

Author Gina Wickwar credited McGraw with help in the editing of her book The Hidden Prince of Oz (2000).<ref>Gina Wickwar, "Early Morning Musings: Writing The Hidden Prince of Oz," The Baum Bugle, Vol. 45 No. 2 (Autumn 2001), pp. 20-24.</ref>

McGraw painted the cover art for most of her books.<ref name="NYTObituary" /> She also designed the jacket for The Moorchild and three of her earlier books.<ref name="OregonEncyclopedia" />

Awards

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McGraw, conducts workshop on "Writing for Juveniles", 1973<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

She was awarded the Newbery Honor three times in three different decades, for her novels Moccasin Trail (1952), The Golden Goblet (1962), and The Moorchild (1997).<ref name="NYTObituary" /> A Really Weird Summer (1977) won an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America, as later did Tangled Web (1993).<ref name="NYTObituary" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> McGraw had a very strong interest in history, and among the many books she wrote for children are Greensleeves, The Seventeenth Swap, The Striped Ships and Mara, Daughter of the Nile. A Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was given to Moccasin Trail in 1963.

Personal life

McGraw lived for many years in Portland, Oregon before dying in late 2000 of "complications of cancer."<ref>"Author, Correspondent, Friend: Tributes to Eloise Jarvis McGraw," The Baum Bugle, Vol. 45 No. 2 (Autumn 2001), pp. 8-13.</ref> She was married to William Corbin McGraw, who died in 1999. They had two children, Peter and Lauren.<ref>Commire, Anne. Something About the Author, Gale Publishing, 1971</ref><ref name="NYTObituary" />

Bibliography

• Sawdust in His Shoes (1950)
• Crown Fire (1951)
• Moccasin Trail (1952; Newbery Award winner)<ref name="NYTObituary" />
• Mara, Daughter of the Nile (1953)
• Pharaoh (1958; adult novel, set in Ancient Egypt)<ref>McGarry, Daniel D., White, Sarah Harriman, Historical Fiction Guide: Annotated Chronological, Geographical, and Topical List of Five Thousand Selected Historical Novels. Scarecrow Press, New York, 1963 (pg. 22)</ref>
• "Techniques of Fiction Writing", Writer (1959)
• The Golden Goblet (1961; Newbery Award winner)<ref name="NYTObituary" />
• Merry Go Round in Oz (1963; co-author Lauren Lynn Wagner)<ref name=drew>Drew, Bernard A. (2010). Literary Afterlife: The Posthumous Continuations of 325 Authors' Fictional Characters, p. 197. McFarland & Company, Inc.</ref>
• Greensleeves (1968)
• Master Cornhill (1973)
• A Really Weird Summer (1977; Edgar Award winner)<ref name="NYTObituary" />
• Joel and the Great Merlini (1979)
• The Forbidden Fountain of Oz (1980, co-author Lauren Lynn Wagner)<ref name=drew/>
• The Money Room (1981)
• Hideaway (1983)
• The Seventeenth Swap (1986)
• The Trouble With Jacob (1988)
• The Striped Ships (1991)
• Tangled Webb (1993; Edgar Award nominee)<ref name="NYTObituary" />
• The Moorchild (1996; Newbery Award winner)<ref name="NYTObituary" />
• "Pajamas, the Sleepyhead Elf", Oz-story Magazine #4 (1998)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• The Rundelstone of Oz (2000; initially published in Oz-story Magazine #6)

External links

• Guide to the Eloise and William McGraw Papers 1923–1991 in the University of Oregon Libraries
• An Evening With Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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