Facts:   - death place: middletown , new york    - language: english    - notableworks: -lrb- '' '' the white stag '' '' the singing tree text '' and illustrations -rrb- '' the good master    - death date: 7 march 1975      - awards: newbery medal 1938    - birth date: 29 october 1899    - name: kate seredy    - image: kate_seredy_headshot . jpg    - birth place: budapest , hungary    - occupation: writer , illustrator   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of kate seredy .
kate seredy -lrb- 1899 -- 1975 -rrb- was a hungarian-born writer and illustrator of children 's books .she won the newbery medal once , the newbery honor twice , the caldecott honor once , and lewis carroll shelf award .most of her books were written in english , which was not her first language .seredy seems to be unknown -lrb- and untranslated -rrb- in her native hungary , despite the fact that her story of the good master , and the sequel set in world war i are intensely about hungary .