John Louis Beatty (January 24, 1922 – March 23, 1975) and Patricia Beatty (August 26, 1922 – July 9, 1991) were married American writers, an academic historian and a children's librarian. They wrote several books together until John Beatty's death in 1975, after which Patricia continued to write until her death in 1991. All Beatty titles have been returned to e-print through Beebliome Books.
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John Beatty
John Louis Beatty was born on January 24, 1922, in Portland, Oregon, and later became a history professor. He wrote ten books with his wife Patricia and helped edit a two-volume historical text entitled Heritage of Western Civilization. Beatty served as an assistant professor of history and humanities at the University of California, Riverside, and died on March 23, 1975, in Riverside, California.
Patricia Beatty
Patricia Beatty was born August 26, 1922, in Portland, Oregon. She spent part of her life in the Pacific Northwest and occasionally resided on Indian reservations. Beatty graduated from Reed College in Portland and has worked as a children's librarian and a high school teacher. She has written fifty books, ten of which were with her first husband John Beatty. She remarried in 1975 to Carl Uhr, an economics professor at the University of California. She died on July 9, 1991.
Awards and accolades
For Patricia Beatty
1972 Jane Addams Children's Book Award, nomination for Lupita Manana
1974 California Council Medal from the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People, won
1976 California Council Medal from the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People, won
1983 Literature Medal from the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People for Jonathan down Under, won
1984 Western Writers of America Award, won
1987 Western Writers of America Award, won
1988 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Charley Skedaddle, won
For both Beattys
1963 New York Times One Hundred Outstanding Books for Young People for At the Seven Stars
1965 Commonwealth Club of California Medal for best juvenile by a California author for Campion Towers
1966 Horn Book honor list for A Donkey for the King
1967 Southern California Council on Children's and Young People's Literature Medal for The Young Dirk