Nancy Willard (born June 26, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a children's author and poet. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She lives in Poughkeepsie, New York and lectures at Vassar College. She was educated at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award and received a B.A. and a Ph.D, and at Stanford University, where she received her M.A.

Selected Bibliography

• In His Country (poetry) 1966
• A Visit to William Blake's Inn 1981
• ''Things Invisible to See, 1984
• Firebrat 1988
• The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake 1990
• Pish, Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch 1991
• In the Salt Marsh 2004