Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Zilpha Keatley Snyder was born in 1927 in Lemoore, California, and graduated from Whittier College in 1948. She taught elementary school for several years, living in places including New York, Washington State, Alaska and California, and later settled in Berkeley, where she taught upper-grade classes before turning to writing in the early 1960s. Her first book, Season of Ponies, appeared in 1964. Over the following decades she published more than forty books for young readers, including mysteries, historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy, many of which blend realistic settings with the supernatural. Three of her books, The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm, were Newbery Honor books. She also wrote the Green Sky trilogy and Song of the Gargoyle. Whittier College gave her an honorary doctorate in 1998. She died in October 2014 at the age of 87.

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• Song of the Gargoyle (1991) · Song of the Gargoyle Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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