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Florence Crannell Means (May 15, 1891 Baldwinsville, New York - November 19, 1980 Boulder, Colorado) was an American writer for children and young adults.〔()〕〔(New York State Literary Tree: Florence Crannell Means )〕 Her novel about Japanese internment, ''The Moved-Outers'', won a Newbery Medal honor award in 1946. She married Carl Bell Means; they are buried at Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colorado.〔(Find A Grave )〕 In ''The Horn Book Magazine'', Jan/Feb 1945, Howard Pease, in his essay "Without Evasion", says: "Only at infrequent intervals do you find a story intimately related to this modern world, a story that takes up a modern problem and thinks it through without evasion. Of our thousands of books, I can find scarcely half a dozen that merit places on this almost vacant shelf in our libraries; and of our hundreds of authors, I can name only three who are doing anything to fill this void in children's reading. These three authors – may someone present each of them with a laurel wreath – are Doris Gates, John R. Tunis, and Florence Crannell Means." Many of Means's books dealt with the experiences of minorities in America, such as Japanese Americans in ''The Moved-Outers'' and African Americans in ''Shuttered Windows''.〔("Freedom's Journeys Through ''Shuttered Windows'' (1938), ''Words by Heart'' (1968), and ''True North'' (1996)" by Kathy N. Headley ) ''The ALAN Review'', Fall 2002〕 ==Works== *''Rafael and Consuelo'' with Harriet Louise Fullen, Friendship Press, 1929 *''A Candle in the Mist: A Story for Girls'', Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931 *''Penny for Luck: A Story of the Rockies'', Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935 *''Shuttered Windows'', Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938 *''The Moved-Outers'', Houghton Mifflin, 1945; reprint Walker, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8027-7386-9 *''Great Day in the Morning'', Houghton Mifflin, 1946 *''The Silver Fleece: A Story of the Spanish in New Mexico'', Winston, 1950 *''Hetty of the Grande Deluxe'', Houghton Mifflin, 1951 *''The Rains Will Come'', illustrator Fred Kabotie, Houghton Mifflin, 1954 *''Knock at the Door, Emmy'', Houghton Mifflin, 1956 *''Reach for a Star'', Houghton Mifflin, 1957 *''Emmy and the Blue Door'', Houghton Mifflin, 1959 *''Sunlight on the Hopi Mesas: The Story of Abigail E. Johnson'', Judson Press, 1960 *''Tolliver'', Houghton Mifflin, 1963 *''Carvers' George: A Biography of George Washington Carver'', illustrator Harvé Stein, E.M. Hale, 1963 *''It Takes All Kinds'', Houghton Mifflin, 1964 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florence Crannell Means」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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