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Natalie Babbitt is an American children's writer and illustrator. She is best known for her 1975 novel Tuck Everlasting, which has been adapted into two feature films and a Broadway musical. She has also written and illustrated several other books, including The Search for Delicious, Kneeknock Rise, and The Devil's Storybook. Babbitt was born in Dayton, Ohio, on July 28, 1932. She attended Smith College, where she studied English and art. After graduating in 1954, she worked as a freelance illustrator and wrote her first book, The Forty-Ninth Magician, in 1966. Babbitt's most famous work, Tuck Everlasting, was published in 1975 and has since been adapted into two feature films and a Broadway musical. The novel tells the story of a family who discovers a spring that grants them immortality. Babbitt has won numerous awards for her work, including the Newbery Honor Award for Kneeknock Rise in 1971 and the National Book Award for The Devil's Storybook in 1974. As of 2021, Natalie Babbitt's net worth is estimated to be $2 million.

Popular As Natalie Zane Moore
Occupation writer
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 28 July 1932
Birthday 28 July
Birthplace Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Date of death 31 October, 2016
Died Place Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Samuel Fisher Babbitt

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Natalie Babbitt Net Worth

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2016

In addition to her own writing, Babbitt also illustrated a number of books by Valerie Worth. Babbitt died on October 31, 2016, at her home in Hamden, Connecticut. She had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer.

2015

Tuck Everlasting, published in 1975, was named an ALA Notable book and continues to be popular with teachers. It was ranked 16th among the "Top 100 Chapter Books" of all time in a 2012 survey published by School Library Journal. Two of her books have been adapted as movies: Tuck Everlasting (twice, in 1981 and in 2002) and The Eyes of the Amaryllis in 1982. The novel was also adapted as a Broadway musical, which premiered in Atlanta on February 4, 2015, and played on Broadway from April 26 to May 29, 2016.

2012

In 2012, Babbitt was awarded the inaugural E.B. White Award for achievement in children's literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

2002

She was a writer, known for Tuck Everlasting (2002), The Eyes of the Amaryllis (1982) and The Eyes Of The Amaryllis. She was married to Samuel Fisher Babbitt.

1982

In 1982, another Times reviewer, George Woods, enjoyed Babbitt's Herbert Rowbarge. "Mrs. Babbitt creates a plausible world and peoples it with believable humans, but the most satisfaction comes from the pleasure of her company as she effortlessly takes the reader in velvet-gloved hand to point out life's coincidences and near misses."

1977

In 1977, The New York Times called Babbitt "Indisputably one of our most gifted and ambitious writers for children".

1971

With the novel Goody Hall (1971), the writer was a finalist in the Edgar Allan Poe Award.

1966

The Babbitts collaborated to create The Forty-ninth Magician, a picture book, that he wrote and she illustrated, published by Pantheon Books in 1966. Samuel became too busy to participate but editor Michael di Capua, at Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, encouraged Natalie to continue producing children's books. After writing and illustrating two short books in verse, she turned to children's novels, and her fourth effort in that vein, Knee-Knock Rise, was awarded a Newbery Honor in 1971.

1932

Natalie Babbitt was born on July 28, 1932 in Dayton, Ohio, USA as Natalie Zane Moore.