Trivia

Is a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority

In her hometown of Moscow, Idaho, a local nature park and a building on the campus of the University of Idaho bear her name.

Her novels won several awards, including the John Newberry Award (1936, "Caddie Woodlawn"); the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1959, for "Caddie Woodlawn"); the Friends of American Writers Award (1955, for "The Headland"); the McKnight Family Foundation Medal (1966, for "Snow in the River"); the National League of American Pen Women Award (1966, for "Snow in the River"); the Southern California Council of Literature for Children and Young People Award (1966); and the Kerland Award (1978, for "Four Girls on a Homestead").

She received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Idaho in 1965.

She is the grandmother of playwright Susan C. Hunter and artist Anne Carol Brink. She is part of a long familial line of "Carolines". Her grandmother was Caroline Woodhouse Watkins (famous as Caddie Woodlawn), her aunt was Caroline Elsie Watkins, her daughter is Nora Caroline Brink Hunter, her granddaughters are Susan Carol Hunter Eiden and Anne Carol Brink, her great granddaughter is Emily Caroline Eiden Murphy, and her great-great granddaughter is Caroline (Caddie) Maisie Murphy. There is a table known as the Caroline Table that is handed down to the eldest Carol or Caroline in each generation.