Julia Woolfolk Cunningham (October 4, 1916 – February 27, 2008) was an American author of children's literature.
She is best remembered for her novel ''Dorp Dead'' which won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and for ''The Treasure Is The Rose'' which was a finalist for the
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors.
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She was sister to
John W. Cunningham
John Marshall Cunningham (July 28, 1915 – June 4, 2002) was an American author who wrote a number of Western novels and stories as "John W. Cunningham" or "John M. Cunningham."
He was born July 28, 1915, at Deer Lodge, Montana, the son of ...
, a Western author who created the story of the influential film
High Noon
''High Noon'' is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, which occurs in real time, centers on a town marshal whose sense of ...
. Her first cousin was the neuroscientist and physician
John C. Lilly
John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001)John C. Lilly at