Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: middletown , new york - language: english - notableworks: -lrb- '' '' the white stag '' '' the singing tree text '' and illustrations -rrb- '' the good master - death date: 7 march 1975 - awards: newbery medal 1938 - birth date: 29 october 1899 - name: kate seredy - image: kate_seredy_headshot . jpg - birth place: budapest , hungary - occupation: writer , illustrator Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of kate seredy .
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kate seredy -lrb- 1899 -- 1975 -rrb- was a hungarian-born writer and illustrator of children 's books .she won the newbery medal once , the newbery honor twice , the caldecott honor once , and lewis carroll shelf award .most of her books were written in english , which was not her first language .seredy seems to be unknown -lrb- and untranslated -rrb- in her native hungary , despite the fact that her story of the good master , and the sequel set in world war i are intensely about hungary .