Scott O'Dell

Scott O'Dell (May 23, 1898–October 15, 1989) was a children's author who wrote 26 books for young readers, along with three adult novels and four nonfiction books. He was most famously the author of the children's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), which won the 1960 Newbery Medal as well as a number of other awards, for The King's Fifth (1966), which was a Newbery Honor award book, and for The Black Pearl (1967), which was also a Newbery Honor book. Island of the Blue Dolphins has been translated into a number of languages and was made into a movie in 1964, starring Celia Kaye, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, and George Kennedy.

Sources

• Scott O'Dell's website
• Commire, Anne (ed.) (1990). Something About the Author Vol. 60. Gale Research Inc.: Detroit.