Naylor has published 145 published books a dozen picture books, a half dozen for adults, and the rest evenly divided between middle grade and YA. In writing about young adults, Naylor has been able to create believable, appealing characters and to write from a young person's point of view. She started writing when a kindergarten teacher invited students to make up a story while the teacher wrote it down. Naylor was born in a tiny house in Indiana that her dad and grandfather helped build. People see different possibilities in a situation, and the solutions they come up with may be very different.Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, writes for all ages, but is best known for her young adult books, "Shiloh," which won the Newbery Medal in 1992, and the "Alice" series. “I would like readers to develop more tolerance for people who are different, for ideas that are different, to come to realize that sometimes there isn’t just one right way to do something. I love being involved in the characters and plot and just the whole mess of writing, it’s such a wonderful mess to me. They read Grimm’s fairy tales, the Bible storybook, all of Mark Twain’s books, Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows-and I think I probably felt that if listening to stories was so much fun, writing them would be even better.
“I think I wanted to be a writer because my parents read aloud to us every night until we were about 15 years old. They have two grown sons and four grandchildren. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland with her husband, Rex who is a speech pathologist. She sold her first book for children in 1965. Naylor worked as a teacher and an editor before she began to write full-time in 1960. She loved to make up stories and write little books when she was growing up, and sold her first story when she was 16 for $4.67. Newbery Medalist Phyllis Reynolds Naylor grew up in Anderson, Indiana, and Joliet, Illinois.
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