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Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at Park School in Baltimore County, Maryland.

She received the 2008 Newbery Medal for her children's book entitled Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village. Her other published books are The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm (2007), A Drowned Maiden's Hair (2006; the book won a Cybil Award that year), and The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug Up Troy (2006).

Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and graduated in 1977.

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