Anna Gertrude Hall

This article is about the librarian and author. For the poet and translator, see Gertrude Hall.

Anna Gertrude Hall
Hall in 1913
Hall in 1913
BornWest Bloomfield, NY
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenreChildren's, Tween, Young Adult

Anna Gertrude Hall (1882–1967) was a well known children and young adult author. Honored with a Newbery Medal honor in 1941 for her novel, Nansen.

Anna Gertrude Hall was born in West Bloomfield, New York to Myron Edwin and Anna (Sterling) Hall. She received an A.B in 1906 from Leland Stanford Junior University. She also earned a B.L.S in 1916 from New York State Library School. Hall worked at Stanford University as a librarian and cataloger between the years of 1906 and 1962.[1][2]

In 1938 she published The Library Trustee with the American Library Association which was a handbook for helping library trustees understand their roles and responsibilities which was reviewed as being "indispensable" and "a practical reference book."[3]

  1. ^ "Archives & Special Collections · University of Minnesota Libraries". special.lib.umn.edu. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  2. ^ "Anna Gertrude Hall". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  3. ^ Commission, Mississippi Library (June 10, 2020). "Mississippi Libraries News 1938-01". Internet Archive. Retrieved April 29, 2021.