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April 24[edit]

Treasury Department Award to a Writer?[edit]

I'm working on expanding the article on the children's writer Aileen Fisher. Her obit in the NY Times and the LA Times both say that she received an award from the US Treasury Department. I have researched every way I can think of for days and cannot find any other reference to this award. Can you find what it was, and when and perhaps why it was given? Thank you very much. Here's a link to the LA Times article, stating "a Silver Medal from the U.S. Treasury Department;" [1] Tlqk56 (talk) 05:45, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This AP story says she won "the 1940 silver medal for distinguished service to the education section of the Treasury Department". --Colapeninsula (talk) 08:54, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much. For some reason the link doesn't work for me, but I can use the information. I appreciate it. Tlqk56 (talk)

It said:

"Aileen Fisher, an award-winning children's poetry and book author, has died. She was 96.

She died Dec. 2 of natural causes, the Boulder Daily Camera reported.

Fisher wrote children's poetry, plays, nature fiction and biographical novels, publishing more than 100 books since the 1930s.

Her first book, ``The Coffee Pot Face, was the 1932 choice of the Junior Literary Guild.

Among her awards was the 1940 silver medal for distinguished service to the education section of the Treasury Department, the 1968 Honor Book on the Hans Christian Anderson award list, and the 1976 National Council of Teachers of English award for excellence in poetry for children."

StuRat (talk) 02:43, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again. Tlqk56 (talk) 04:33, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]