Anna Gertrude Hall Explained

Anna Gertrude Hall
Birth Place:West Bloomfield, NY
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:American
Genre:Children's, Tween, Young Adult

Anna Gertrude Hall (1882–1967) was a well known children and young adult author. Honored with a Newbery Medal honor in 1941 for her novel, Nansen.

Anna Gertrude Hall was born in West Bloomfield, New York to Myron Edwin and Anna (Sterling) Hall. She received an A.B in 1906 from Leland Stanford Junior University. She also earned a B.L.S in 1916 from New York State Library School. Hall worked at Stanford University as a librarian and cataloger between the years of 1906 and 1962.[1] [2]

In 1938 she published The Library Trustee with the American Library Association which was a handbook for helping library trustees understand their roles and responsibilities which was reviewed as being "indispensable" and "a practical reference book."[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Archives & Special Collections · University of Minnesota Libraries. special.lib.umn.edu. December 5, 2017.
  2. Web site: Anna Gertrude Hall. www.goodreads.com. December 5, 2017.
  3. Web site: Commission. Mississippi Library. Mississippi Libraries News 1938-01. Internet Archive . 2020-06-10 . 2021-04-29.