Eloise McGraw
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (December 9, 1915 - November 30, 2000) was an author of children's books. 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). A Really Weird Summer (1977) won an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. McGraw had a particular interest in history, and among the many books she wrote for children are Greensleeves, Pharaoh, The Seventeenth Swap, and Mara, Daughter of the Nile.
McGraw also contributed to the Oz series started by L. Frank Baum, writing with her daughter Lauren Lynn McGraw Merry Go Round in Oz (the last of the Oz books issued by Baum's publisher) and The Forbidden Fountain of Oz, and later writing The Rundlestone of Oz on her own.
She lived for many years in Portland, Oregon before dying in late 2000 of "complications of cancer".
McGraw had a husband named William Corbin McGraw, who died in 1999. They had two children, Peter and Lauren.
