Virginia Sorensen

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Virginia Sorensen


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Provo, Utah, The United States
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Virginia Louise Sorensen (February 17, 1912-1991) was an American writer. Her role in Utah and Mormon literature places her within the "lost generation" of Mormon writers. She was awarded the 1957 Newbery Medal for her children's novel, Miracles on Maple Hill.

Sorensen was born in Provo, Utah in 1912, and it was her family's own stories that influenced her early novels of the American West.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 12,818 ratings · 992 reviews · 16 distinct worksSimilar authors
Miracles on Maple Hill

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3.87 avg rating — 11,765 ratings — published 1956 — 35 editions
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Plain Girl

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3.71 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 1955 — 20 editions
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A Little Lower than the Angels

3.85 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1942 — 2 editions
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Where Nothing Is Long Ago: ...

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3.74 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions
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The Evening and the Morning

4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1949
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Lotte's Locket

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3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1964 — 4 editions
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Curious Missie

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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions
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On this Star

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Many Heavens

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1954
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Around the Corner

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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions
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“When you have done a great many good things, you forget to speak of them. It is those who do very little who must talk of it.
-Henry in Miracles on Maple Hill”
Virginia Sorensen, Miracles on Maple Hill

“I hate this country,” she thought,” I hate it. I always hated it, really. It’s too flat and terrible, there’s no end or beginning to it, and the people are too flat and patient, taking things the way they do and believing them. To inherit the highest degree of glory – to sit beside Brother Joseph again, in another world, and to be commanded by that voice again.” She knew suddenly that Simon belonged to them and not to her – he was flat and yielding and patient, too, Simon was. He wasn’t living now, he was living forever.”
Virginia Sorensen, A Little Lower than the Angels

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