Author Jeannette Eyerly wrote 18 young adult novels and two books of poetry during her lifetime. She won the Christopher Medal for Escape from Nowhere, about a girl's struggle with drugs. Her book, He's My Baby Now, about an unmarried father seeking to keep his child was adapted into an after school special entitled Schoolboy Father. Her books primarily dealt with serious topics as drug abuse, suicide, teen pregnancy, abortion and divorce. She was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 2006. She died on August 18, 2008 at the age of 100.