Charlie May Simon

Charlie May Simon (1897-1977) was a noted American children's author. Many of her works drew on her experience growing up in rural Arkansas.

Charlie May Simon was born in Monticello, Arkansas on 17 August 1897.

She attended Memphis State University, Stanford University and the Chicago Art Institute.

On 18 January 1936 she married the Imagist poet John Gould Fletcher. They lived in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Charlie May Simon died in 1977.

The Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award was named in her honor in 1971 and is presented annually for children's literature. Award winners are selected by a vote of Arkansas school children in the fourth through sixth grades.

Her works include:

• Razorbacks Are Really Hogs (1972)
• The Arkansas Stories of Charlie May Simon (1981)
• Robin on the Mountain (1934)
• Lost Corner (1935)
• Tenny Gay (1936)
• The Sharecropper (1937)
• Popo's Miracle (1938)
• Bright Morning (1939)
• The Faraway Trail (1940)
• Roundabout (1941)
• Lonnie's Landing (1942)
• Younger Brother (1942)
• Lays of the New Land (1943)
• Art in the New Land (1945)
• Song of Tomorrow (1945)
• Straw in the Sun (1945)
• Joe Mason: Apprentice to Audubon (1946)
• The Royal Road (1948)
• Saturday's Child (1950)
• The Long Hunt (1952)
• Johnswood (1953)
• Green Grows the Prairie: Arkansas in the 1890's (1955)
• Secret on the Congo (1955)
• All Men Are Brothers: A Portrait of Schweitzer (1956)
• A Seed Shall Serve: The Story of Toyohiko Kagawa (1958)
• The Sun and the Birch: The Story of Crown Prince Akihito & Crown Princess Michiko (1960)
• The Andrew Carnegie Story (1965)
• Dag Hammarskjold (1967)
• Martin Buber: Wisdom In Our Time (1969)
• Faith Has Need of All Truth (1974)
• Christmas Every Friday, and Other Christmas Stories (1981)