Erick Berry

Erick Berry
Evangel Allena Champlin Best (January 4, 1892 – February 1974), better known by her pen name Erick Berry, was an American author, illustrator and editor.
Early and personal life
Berry was born on January 4, 1892, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was married at least twice, the second time to fellow writer Herbert Best. She derived her pen name from her interest in Eric Pape and the surname of her first husband.
Career
Berry published many children's books from the 1930s to the '60s, and worked as an author, illustrator, and editor. Perhaps the most popular book she wrote was 1933's Winged Girl of Knossos, which she also illustrated. It won a Newbery Honor in 1934. In that year, Anne Dempster Kyle's The Apprentice of Florence, illustrated by Berry, won the same award. She also illustrated several of her husband Best's works, one of which, Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes, also won a Newbery Honor. She also edited at least one publication, Walter and Marion Havighurst's 1949 children's historical novel Song of the Pines.
Death
Berry died in February 1974, at the age of 82.
Bibliography
As author
As sole author
Girls in Africa: 1928 (also illustrated)
Penny-whistle: 1930 (also illustrated)
Humbo the Hippo and Little-Boy-Bumbo: 1932 (also illustrated)
Winged Girl of Knossos: 1933 (also illustrated)
Cynthia Steps Out: 1937
Homespun: 1937 (illustrated by Harold von Schmidt)
Honey of the Nile: 1938 (also illustrated)
Hudson Frontier: 1942 (also illustrated)
Sybil Ludington's Ride: 1952 (also illustrated)
Hay-Foot, Straw-Foot: 1954 (also illustrated)
Green Door to the Sea: 1955 (also illustrated)
Horses for the General: 1956 (also illustrated)
The Land and People of Finland: 1959
The Land and People of Iceland: 1959
The Four Londons of William Hogarth: 1964
You Have Got to Go Out: The Story of the United States Coast Guard: 1964
Mr. Arctic: An Account of Vilhjalmur Stefansson: 1966
The Springing of the Rice: A Story of Thailand: 1966 (illustrated by John Kaufmann)
When Wagon Trains Rolled to Santa Fe: 1966 (illustrated by Charles Waterhouse)
The Magic Banana and Other Polynesian Tales: 1968 (illustrated by Nicholas Amorosi)
A World Explorer: Fridtjof Nansen: 1969 (illustrated by William Hutchinson)
With Herbert Best
Men Who Changed the Map: 1968
The Polynesian Triangle: 1968
As illustrator
Books by Herbert Best
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes: 1930
Tal of the Four Tribes: 1938
Gunsmith's Boy: 1942
The Long Portage: A Story of Ticonderoga and Lord Howe: 1948
Not Without Danger: 1951
The Columbus Cannon: 1954
Underwater Warriors: Story of the American Frogmen: 1967
Books by other authors
Pinky Pup and The Empty Elephant - Dixie Willson: 1928
This Side of Jordan - Roark Bradford: 1929 (Harper & Brothers) and 1930 (William Heinemann Ltd)
Bee of the Cactus Country — Nora Archibald Smith: 1932
The Apprentice of Florence — Anne Dempster Kyle: 1933
Araminta — Eva Knox Evans: 1935
Jerome Anthony — Eva Knox Evans: 1936
The Polynesian Triangle — Eleanor Weakley Nolen: 1938
Key Corner — Eva Knox Evans: 1938
The Pilgrim Goose — Keith Robertson: 1956
As editor
Song of the Pines — Walter and Marion Havighurst: 1949
References
1892 births
1974 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American children's writers
American women novelists
Newbery Honor winners
20th-century American women writers