Emily Cheney Neville
Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 – December 14, 1997) was an American author. Her first book, It's Like This, Cat (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964. Personal life and education 
Neville was born December 28, 1919 in Manchester, Connecticut to Howell and Anne Bunce Cheney, and was the youngest of her siblings. She attended Oxford School in Hartford, then graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in economics in 1940. Neville married Glenn Neville, a newspaperman, in 1948, and the couple had five children. After her children were born, she took a break from writing until all her children were school aged. The family lived in New York City. Neville died December 14, 1997. Career 
After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1940, Neville worked for the New York Daily News and the New York Daily Mirror newspapers. Her first book, It's Like This, Cat (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964. Her other works include:  Berries Goodman (1965); The Seventeen-Street Gang (1966); Traveler From a Small Kingdom (1968); and Fogarty (1969). "Her books have been praised by critics for their emphasis on realism and honest depiction of adolescent life," especially urban life. References

External links

 
 
 
 Emily Cheney Neville at Library of Congress Authorities — with 11 catalog records

 

1919 births
1997 deaths
American children's writers
Newbery Medal winners
Bryn Mawr College alumni
People from Manchester, Connecticut
20th-century American women writers