Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

About Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Naylor is best known for her Newbery Medal-winning Shiloh series, but she also wrote The Witch Saga, the controversial Alice books, the Besseldorf Mysteries, and a slew of other young adult novels.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is an American writer famous for children's and youth fiction. Naylor is best known for her Shiloh children's novel quartet and "Alice", one of the most frequently debated books of the past decade.

Nationality	American
Notable awards	Newbery Medal, 1992
Children	Jeffery Naylor, Michael Naylor
Spouse	Rex Naylor (m. 1960, his death in 2012)
Born	Phyllis Reynolds, January 4, 1933, Anderson, Indiana, US
Occupation	Writer
Period	1965–present

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Trivia

Her first Shiloh novel earned not only the prestigious Newbery Medal, but also the Mark Twain Readers Award; the Sequoyah Children's Book Award; a Library Association Notable Children's Book designation; and the William Allen White Children's Book Award.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor before fame

She released her first children's book, The Galloping Goat and Other Stories, after getting a bachelor's degree from American University.

Achievement of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Mark Twain Readers Award, the Sequoyah Children's Book Award, a Library Association Notable Children's Book designation, and the William Allen White Children's Book Award were all given to her first Shiloh novel.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor family life

She was born and raised in Anderson, Indiana. Her sons Michael and Jeffrey are the outcome of her more than five-decade marriage to Rex Naylor.

Associations of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

She and John Green, another young adult fiction author, were both born in Indiana.

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