What is Bette Greene?
[[File:Bette Greene (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] [[File:Bettegreensig.jpg|right|200px]] '''Bette Greene''' (June 28, 1934 &ndash; October 2, 2020) was an American author of many books for children and young adults. Some of her best known works were ''[[Summer of My German Soldier]]'', ''The Drowning of Stephan Jones'', and the [[Newbery Honor]] book ''[[Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe]]''. She was born in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]. Greene died of [[heart failure]] on October 2, 2020 at her home in [[Lakewood Ranch, Florida]] at the age of 86.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bette-greene-novelist-whose-summer-of-my-german-soldier-became-a-young-adult-hit-dies-at-86/2020/10/08/6e3dfe62-0975-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html Bette Greene, novelist whose ‘Summer of My German Soldier’ became a young-adult hit, dies at 86]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Greene, Bette}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:American novelists]] [[Category:Deaths from heart failure]] [[Category:Writers from Memphis, Tennessee]] {{US-bio-stub}}