

"Smokey Night" won the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Medal in 1995 and "Winter's Coming" was voted one of the 10 Best Books of 1977 by the New York Times. In 1976, "One More Flight" won the Golden Kite Medal, and in 1978, "Ghost of Summer" won the Southern California's Council on Literature for Children and Young People's Award for fiction. That same year, she began her writing career, and in 1972, her first book, "The Two Giants" was published. She emigrated with her family in 1958 to California, and became a naturalized citizen in 1969. She graduated from Northern Ireland's Methodist College in Belfast in 1945 and then studied at Belfast's Queen's College.

Eve Bunting was born in 1928 in Maghera, Ireland, as Anne Evelyn Bunting.
