Anna Gertrude Hall

Anna Gertrude Hall (1882–1967) was a well known children and young adult author and librarian. Honored with a Newbery Medal honor in 1941 for her novel, Nansen.

Early life and education Anna Gertrude Hall was born in West Bloomfield, New York to Myron Edwin and Anna (Sterling) Hall on February 9, 1882. She received an A.B in 1906 from Leland Stanford Junior University and worked as an assistant in the library. She also earned a B.L.S in 1916 from New York State Library School.

Career During her career, Anna Gertrude Hall worked with many libraries and various organizations all over the country. Hall worked at Stanford University, first as a library assistant and then as a librarian and cataloger between the years of 1906 and 1914. From there, she went on to work at the Endicott Free Library as a librarian from 1915 to 1918. Finally, from 1948 to 1962, Hall worked in the Palo Alto Medical Clinic.

Work with the American Library Association In 1938 she published The Library Trustee with the American Library Association (ALA) which was a handbook for helping library trustees understand their roles and responsibilities which was reviewed as being "indispensable" and "a practical reference book."

According to the Publisher's Note in the publication, Hall was chosen for this project based on the fact that she had worked within the public library system as a librarian for many years, as well as her experience with the New York State Department of Education.

Proceeding, this work was a shorter manual for library trustees titled The Trustee and His Library, published in 1927 by the ALA. Nansen (1941) The Library Trustee (1938) Cyrus Holt and the Civil War (1964)

Awards Newbery Medal, 1941 (Honor)

Death Anna died on February 6, 1967 in Santa Clara, California.