Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (May 24, 1892 – August 7, 1958), was an American children's book author.
She was born Elizabeth Foreman in Baltimore, Maryland and attended the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts before becoming a Methodist missionary and teacher, working in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Chongqing, beginning in 1917. In Nanjing, she taught at two schools - a girls boarding school and a boys academy. There she met her husband, John Abraham Lewis, who was the principal of the boys academy. They got married in 1921. After several years, due to illness, she had to leave China. Once back in America, she used her Chinese experiences as inspiration for novels and short stories. Her first book, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, based on her time as a director of schools in Chungking (Chongqing), won the 1933 Newbery Award. Other books and short stories followed. She died back in Baltimore.
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