Island of the Blue Dolphins

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Scott O'Dell was born in Los Angeles and lived with his wife at Stoneapple Farm, Julian, an 1870 gold-mining town in the mountains east of San Diego. Though his great-grandfather was a first cousin of Sir Walter Scott, Scott O'Dell's literary reputation is based solely on the success of his own books. He was a newspaperman and an authority on California history. He won many awards for his writing throughout the world, including the Newbery Award for Children's Literature for Island of the Blue Dolphins. Scott O'Dell was was the author of Country of the Sun, an informal history of Southern California, and Hill of the Hawk, which is considered the best historical novel of the region. He died in October 1989.