Want fewer ads?

Virginia Sorensen, also credited as Virginia Sorenson, (February 17, 1912, in Provo, Utah — December 24, 1991) was the author of the 1957 John Newbery Medal winning Miracles on Maple Hill. Her first novel, A Little Lower Than the Angels, was written and published in 1942 while she resided in Terre Haute, Indiana, with her first husband Frederick C. Sorensen, a professor at Indiana State Teachers College, now Indiana State University. She later married Alec Waugh, son of Arthur Waugh and brother of Evelyn Waugh, in 1969. Her books are usually Mormon-themed.

This author page uses material from the Wikipedia article "Virginia Sorenson", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0