Reynolds naylor

She began publishing collections of short stories for children and young adults in 1965, and her first children’s novel, What the Gulls Were Singing, appeared in 1967. In 1963 she received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from American University in Washington, D.C., but decided to forgo graduate school to devote herself to writing full-time. She began writing stories in grade school and was published in a church paper as a teenager. Naylor was born Phyllis Dean Reynolds on January 4, 1933, in Anderson, Indiana. She was the recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1992 for the book Shiloh (1991). American author Phyllis Naylor Reynolds wrote more than 125 books for children, young adults, and adults, making a name for herself in a variety of genres.