| Florence Crannell Means | |
| Birth Date: | 15 May 1891 |
| Birth Place: | Baldwinsville, New York, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | American |
| Notable Works: | The Moved-Outers (1945) |
| Awards: | Children's Book Award (1945) |
| Spouse: | Carl Bell Means |
Florence Crannell Means (May 15, 1891 – November 19, 1980) was an American writer for children and young adults.[1] [2] For her 1945 novel, The Moved-Outers, she received a Newbery Medal honor award and the Child Study Association of America Children's Book Award.
Florence Crannell Means was born May 15, 1891, in Baldwinsville, New York.
In 1946 her novel about Japanese internment, The Moved-Outers, won a Newbery Medal honor award and the Children's Book Award (now Josette Frank Award) from the Child Study Association of America.[3]
In his "Without Evasion" essay in The Horn Book Magazine, Jan/Feb 1945, Howard Pease says: "Only at infrequent intervals do you find a story intimately related to this modern world, a story that takes up a modern problem and thinks it through without evasion. Of our thousands of books, I can find scarcely half a dozen that merit places on this almost vacant shelf in our libraries; and of our hundreds of authors, I can name only three who are doing anything to fill this void in children's reading. These three authors – may someone present each of them with a laurel wreath – are Doris Gates, John R. Tunis, and Florence Crannell Means."[4] Many of Means' books dealt with the experiences of minorities in America, such as Japanese Americans in The Moved-Outers and African Americans in Shuttered Windows.[5]
She married Carl Bell Means and died November 19, 1980, in Boulder, Colorado.