High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Katherine Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is an American author best known for children`s novels. For four different books published 1975 to 1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of three people to win the two major international awards: for "lasting contribution to children`s literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998. For her career contribution to "children`s and young adult literature in the broadest sense", she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest prize in children`s literature.