| Mollie
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| Nationality - Scottish |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 30 Jun 1922
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Date of death - Still with us |
| Place of birth
- Longniddry : East Lothian |
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Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith, whose pen name is Mollie Hunter, was born in Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, on June 30, 1922.
Mollie attended Preston Lodge School in East Lothian, and married Thomas McIlwraith in 1940.
She lectured in the United States in 1975, delivering the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1976, she toured New Zealand at the request of the British Council, the International Reading Association and educational authorities of New Zealand and Australia.
She was writer-in-residence at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1980 and 1981, and a teacher of creative writing at the Aberlour Summer School for Gifted Children in 1987.
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Mollie published a book about her experiences writing children's fiction, several plays, stories in anthologies, and articles in numerous newspapers and magazines.
She is perhaps best known for her 25+ novels for children and young adults.
Hunter consistently attempts to incorporate a life-long exploration of Scotland's folklore and history into her tales.
Her fiction, she believes, falls into three categories: fantasy for the younger reader, historical novels for those in their early teens, and realistic novels for young adults. All three types reflect Hunter's idea that a writer's goal is to entertain as well as to express something of one's own philosophy.
Since she began her career as a writer in 1953, Hunter has received numerous awards and honors including the New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year Award in 1972 for The Haunted Mountain and A Sound of Chariots. A Stranger Came Ashore, was named the Boston Globe Horn Book Award Honor Book in 1976, and in 1975, The Stronghold was awarded the Carnegie Medal. |
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