A Long Way from Chicago

RICHARD PECK (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for  A Year Down Yonder, a Newbery Honor for  A Long Way from Chicago, the Scott O’ Dell Award for  The River Between Us, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for  Are You in the House Alone? , a  Boston Globe-Horn BookAward Honor for  The Best Man, and the Christopher Medal for  The Teacher’ s Funeral. He was the first children’ s author ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal, and was twice a National Book Award Finalist.