Anna Gertrude Hall

This article is about the librarian and author. For the poet and translator, see Gertrude Hall.

Anna Gertrude Hall (1882–1967) was a well known children and young adult author. Honored with a Newbery Medal honor in 1941 for her novel, Nansen.

Anna Gertrude Hall
Hall in 1913
Born	West Bloomfield, NY
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Genre	Children's, Tween, Young Adult

Anna Gertrude Hall was born in West Bloomfield, New York to Myron Edwin and Anna (Sterling) Hall on February 9, 1882.^[1] She received an A.B in 1906 from Leland Stanford Junior University. She also earned a B.L.S in 1916 from New York State Library School. Hall worked at Stanford University as a librarian and cataloger between the years of 1906 and 1962.^[2][3]

In 1938 she published The Library Trustee with the American Library Association which was a handbook for helping library trustees understand their roles and responsibilities which was reviewed as being "indispensable" and "a practical reference book."^[4]

Anna died on February 6, 1967 in Santa Clara, California. ^[5] She is buried at East Lawn Memorial Park in Sacramento, California with her parents.^[6]

Works

• Toward the North Pole (1964)
• Cyrus Holt and the Civil War (1964)
• Nansen (1941)
• The Library Trustee (1938)

Awards

• Newbery Medal, 1941