Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (May 24, 1892 – August 7, 1958), was an American children's book author.

She was born Elizabeth Foreman in Baltimore, Maryland and studied art at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts from 1909-1910. Of that time, she has said, "My sister and I grew up in a world of books, country life, horses, dogs, and a variety of other pets, a background threaded by colorful strands of wit, hearty laughter, singing, hospitality, and naturally in Maryland, good food."

She attended a secretarial school in Baltimore from 1916-1917, preparatory to travel to China for the Methodist Women's Board. Later in 1917 she received religious instruction at the Bible Seminary in New York.

She then became a Methodist missionary and teacher in China, initially as the associate mission treasurer for the Women's Foreign Missionary Society in Shanghai (1917-1918). During the next two years, she was a teacher in the schools of Nanjing, and a district supervisor of schools in Chongqing. In Nanjing, she taught at two schools - a girls boarding school and a boys academy. She met her husband, John Abraham Lewis, who was also a Methodist Missionary in the Upper Yangtze for many years. They got married in 1921. They had one son, John Fulton Lewis, who grew up to become a newspaper editor and author.

After several years, due to illness, she had to leave China. Once back in America, she used her Chinese experiences as inspiration for novels and short stories. Her first book, "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze", based on her time as a director of schools in Chungking (Chongqing), won the 1933 Newbery Award. She died in Arnold, Maryland, not far from Annapolis.

Publications

* "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze", 1933
* "Ho-Ming, Girl of New China", 1934
* "China Quest", 1937
* "Portraits from a Chinese Scroll", 1938
* "Test Tubes and Dragon Scales", 1940, in collaboration with Dr. George C. Basil
* "When the Typhoon Blows", 1942
* "To Beat a Tiger, One Needs a Brother's Help", 1956

External links

* http://secure.britannica.com/ebi/article-9315041


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