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![]() ![]() Snyder displayed almost uncanny insight into the intellectual, emotional and imaginative lives of boys and girls, a perspective gained in part through her years as a schoolteacher. ![]() Widely praised, and occasionally controversial for its dalliances with the occult, her work was recognized three times with the Newbery Honor, a top prize in children’s literature. Snyder was a beloved figure to millions of youngsters and former youngsters, who discovered her stories anew by reading them to their own children. The cause was a stroke, said her husband, Larry Snyder. ![]() 7 at a retirement community in Greenbrae, Calif. Zilpha Keatley Snyder, the prize-winning author of “The Egypt Game” and dozens of other novels that led young readers into the wondrous terrain between fantasy and reality, died Oct. ![]()
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