Patricia Curtis Pfitsch (1948-)

Outstanding Author Award, Highlights for Children, 1989, for story "Soldier of Peace," and 1996, for "Inside Looking Out"; Fiction Contest Winner, Highlights for Children, 1994, for "Stormy Waters"; Juvenile Fiction Award, Friends of American Writers, Books for the Teen Age selection, New York Public Library (NYPL), both 1998, and Best Books for Young Adults selection, American Library Association, all for Keeper of the Light; Arthur Tofte Juvenile Fiction Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers, and Books for the Teen Age selection, NYPL, both 1999, for The Deeper Song; Arthur Tofte Juvenile Fiction Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers, Junior Library Guild selection, and Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee, Mystery Writers of America, all 2003, for Riding the Flume.