



Marly and her family share many adventures when they mo.)Īn Amish girl, Esther feels like "one black bird agains.) (Widowed white woman has affair with younger black man on. Virginia Sorensen has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who. She received two Guggenheim fellowships, one in 1946 to study tribe of Mexican Indians, and one in 1954 to study in Denmark as regards the history of Sanpete Valley"s settlers. With its publication, Alfred Knopf declared, "I have seldom introduced a new novelist with the confidence I feel in the author of this remarkable book lieutenant marks the debut, I believe, of a major American writer" She is considered "one of Utah"s premiere gifts to literary America." Her first book for children, Curious Missy, grew out of her efforts with a bookmobile in Alabama. Sorensen, Virginia was born on Februin Provo, Utah, United States. Virginia Sorensen, née Eggertsen, also credited as Virginia Sorenson, was the author of the 1957 John Newbery Medal winning Miracles on Maple Hill, based in the Erie, Pennsylvania region where she lived at the time.
