Presented to: Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh
For:
Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh, to our individual and collective sorrow, died on December 24, 1991, not long after receiving notification of her election to this honor. She wrote six important books of fiction about the Mormons: A Little Lower Than the Angels, On This Star, The Evening and the Morning, Many Heavens, Kingdom Come, and Where Nothing Is Long Ago. Also of note is a reminiscence, Memories of a Mormon Childhood. In 1956 she won the National Study Award for Plain Girl, and in 1957 the Newberry Award for Miracles on Maple Hill.