Sorensen, Virginia, 1912-1991

LC control no.	n 79066578
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3537.O594
Personal name heading	Sorensen, Virginia, 1912-1991 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Eggertsen, Virginia, 1912-1991 Waugh, Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen, 1912-1991 Sūrinsin, Vīrzhīniyā, 1912-1991 سورنسن، ڤيرچينيا
Birth date	1912-02-17
Death date	1991-12-24
Place of birth	Provo (Utah)
Place of death	Hendersonville (N.C.)
Profession or occupation	Authors
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	NUCMC files (Sorensen, Virginia (Eggertsen), 1912-; Virginia Eggertsen; southern writer) UPB files, 2/7/95 (md. Alec Waugh; d. 1991) Brigham Young University L. Tom Perry Special Collections worksheet, Dec. 2, 2004 (d. 24 December 1991) Muʻjizāt fawqa Tall Mābil, 2005: t.p. (Vīrzhīniyā Sūrinsin) t.p. verso (Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen) LC database, July 19, 2010 (hdg.: Sorensen, Virginia Eggertsen, 1912-1991; usage: Virginia Sorensen) Find A Grave, website viewed May 2, 2019 (Virginia Louise Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh; born 17 February 1912 in Provo, Utah; died 24 December 1991 in Hendersonville, North Carolina; burial: Provo City Cemetery; award-winning children's novelist and writer of adult fiction; studied journalism at Brigham Young University and the University of Missouri; she graduated from BYU in 1934; married her first husband, Frederick Chester Sorensen and had 2 children; lived in California, Indiana, Colorado, Alabama, and Pennsylvania; most of her adult novels are based on her Mormon background, although she left the church during her first marriage; her fourth book for children, "Miracles on Maple Hill," was awarded the 1957 Newbery Medal; her marriage to Sorensen ended in 1959 and she married writer Alec Waugh in 1966; they resided in Morocco for 13 years and returned to the United States in 1980; her last novel was published in 1978)
Associated language	eng