Polly Horvath (born January 30, 1957 in Kalamazoo, Michigan)[1] is an American-Canadian author of novels for children and young adults.
She won the 2003 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Canning Season, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
[4] She lived in New York City and Montreal before settling on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
[1] In 2010, Horvath received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People,[3] which is considered a top honour for Canadian children's book writers and illustrators.
Six of Horvath's books are Junior Library Guild selections: My One Hundred Adventures (2009),[6] Northward to the Moon (2010),[7] One Year in Coal Harbor (2013),[8] The Night Garden (2017),[9] Very Rich (2018),[10] and Pine Island Home (2020).