Multiple Awards
No one has won both the Edwards Award and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, which the ALA children's division (ALSC) awards for "substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature" (from 1954, now biennial). Four Edwards winners have been selected by ALSC to deliver the annual May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture: Susan Cooper in 2001, Ursula K. Le Guin 2004, Walter Dean Myers 2009, and Lois Lowry 2011.
ALSC considers the Arbuthnot selection, inaugurated in 1970, another career award for contribution to children's literature. The lecturer prepares and delivers —currently about 16 months after selection— "a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children's literature", which is also published in the ALSC journal.
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