Eleanor Cameron

Eleanor Cameron

March 23, 1912 – October 11, 1996
Countries: Canada
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Place of Death: Monterey, California, US

Eleanor Frances (Butler) Cameron (March 23, 1912 – October 11, 1996) was a children's author and critic. She published 20 books in her lifetime, including The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (1954) and its sequels, a collection of critical essays called The Green and Burning Tree (1969), and The Court of the Stone Children (1973), which won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books