Virginia Sorensen
Virginia Louise Sorensen (February 17, 1912-1991) was an American writer. Her role in Utah and Mormon literature places her within the "lost generation" of Mormon writers. She was awarded the 1957 Newbery Medal for her children's novel, Miracles on Maple Hill.
Sorensen was born in Provo, Utah in 1912, and it was her family's own stories that influenced her early novels of the American West.
“When you have done a great many good things, you forget to speak of them. It is those who do very little who must talk of it. -Henry in Miracles on Maple Hill”
Virginia Sorensen