Novelist Virginia Sorensen

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Virginia Sorensen

Living place: Utah

Birthday: 17-2-1912

Population of US 1912: 95,335,000

Global rank: #69849

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Who is Novelist Virginia Sorensen?
An American fiction writer, she is known for Miracles on Maple Hill, which won the Newbery Medal in 1957. Her other works for children include Curious Missie, Plain Girl, and Locket Lotte. received two Guggenheim Fellowships: one to study Mexican Indian tribes, and one to study in Denmark.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She grew up in Utah and lived for a time in Eerie, Pennsylvania.

Family life info

Her first husband, Frederick C. Sorensen, was a professor at Indiana State University. She later married Alec Waugh.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Virginia Sorensen?
She and Karen Hesse both won Newbery medals.

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When was Novelist Virginia Sorensen born?
Virginia Sorensen was born in 17-2-1912, death year is , at the age of 112.
Where is Novelist Virginia Sorensen's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Virginia Sorensen was born in Utah, . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Virginia Sorensen's global rank is 69849 and whose rank is 719 in list of famous Novelist. Population of US in 1912 is about 95,335,000 persons.
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Events in 1912 and 17-2

Events in US in the birth year of Virginia Sorensen

  • New Mexico and Arizona are admitted as states No. 47 and 48.
  • Woodrow Wilson is elected president.
  • William Randolph Hearst begins to acquire his media empire that will include 18 newspapers and nine magazines within two decades.
  • Girl Scouts of America founded by Juliette Gordon Low.

Birthday Virginia Sorensen (17-2) in history

  • Day 17-2 year 1600: Italian philosopher and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno were burned alive by a Catholic court after being convicted of heresy. He is also known as an alchemist and proponent of the Copernican theory.
  • Day 17-2 year 1801: The electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives who elected Jefferson president.
  • Day 17-2 year 1817: Baltimore became the first U.S. city lit by gas.
  • Day 17-2 year 1864: The Confederate submarine Hunley , equipped with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar, rammed and sank the Union's ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, S.C.
  • Day 17-2 year 1904: Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premiered in Milan.
  • Day 17-2 year 1972: President Richard Nixon left on his trip to China.
  • Day 17-2 year 1996: Chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM computer, Deep Blue, winning the six-game match.
  • Day 17-2 year 2008: Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
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