The Great Gilly Hopkins is a realistic children's novel by Katherine Paterson. It was published by Crowell in 1978 and it won the U.S. National Book Award next year. In 2012 it was ranked number 63 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by "School Library Journal" the third of three books by Paterson in the top 100.
Can we infer the following?
Katherine Paterson died in 2012.

Options are: [I] Yes; [II] It's impossible to say; [III] No;
The answer is:
[II]