Erin Entrada Kelly
Erin Entrada Kelly | |
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Kelly at the 2024 National Book Awards, NYC. | |
| Born | Hays, Kansas, U.S. |
| Education | McNeese State University (BA) Rosemont College (MFA) Moore College of Art and Design (Honorary Doctorate) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Awards | Newbery Medal (2018, 2025) Newbery Honor (2021) National Book Award Finalist (2024) |
Erin Entrada Kelly is an American writer of children's literature. She was awarded the 2018 John Newbery Medal by the Association for Library Service to Children for her third novel Hello, Universe. She won the award a second time in 2025 for her novel The First State of Being.
Kelly also received a 2021 Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space, the Award for Children's Literature from the Asian Pacific Librarians Association for her second novel The Land of Forgotten Girls, and a Sibert Honor for At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom, her first work of nonfiction. She is one of only five authors who have won two Newbery Medals and a Newbery Honor. Kelly also received the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliter Preis (German Youth Literature Prize) for Vier Wünsche ans Universum, the German edition of Hello, Universe.