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Stephen Gammell
Stephen Gammell (born February 10, 1943) is an American illustrator of children's books. He won the 1989 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing ''Song and Dance Man'' by Karen Ackerman. His illustrations in ''Where the Buffaloes Begin'' by Olaf Baker (1982) and ''The Relatives Came'' by Cynthia Rylant (1986) earned those titles the designation of Caldecott Honor books. Although he is most widely known for his evocative, nightmarish illustrations for Alvin Schwartz's ''Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'' trilogy, he has illustrated nearly seventy books between 1973 and 2013, including nine which he authored himself. Biography Gammell grew up in Iowa. His father, an art editor for a major magazine, brought home periodicals that gave Stephen early artistic inspiration. His parents also supplied him with plenty of pencils, paper, and encouragement. He is self-taught. He started his career with freelance commercial work, but became interested in children's bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Books
A child (plural, : children) is a human being between the stages of childbirth, birth and puberty, or between the Development of the human body, developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor (law), minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. Children generally have fewer Children's rights, rights and responsibilities than adults. They are classed as unable to make serious decisions. ''Child'' may also describe a relationship with a parent (such as sons and daughters of any age) or, metaphorically, an authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature" or "a child of the Sixties." Biological, legal and social definitions In the biological sciences, a child is usually defined as a person between birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror And Terror
The distinction between terror and horror is a standard literary and psychological concept applied especially to Gothic and horror fiction. ''Terror'' is usually described as the feeling of dread and anticipation that ''precedes'' the horrifying experience. By contrast, ''horror'' is the feeling of revulsion that usually ''follows'' a frightening sight, sound, or otherwise experience. Terror has also been defined by Noel Carroll as a combination of horror and revulsion. Literary Gothic The distinction between terror and horror was first characterized by the Gothic writer Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), horror being more related to being shocked or scared (being horrified) at an awful realization or a deeply unpleasant occurrence, while terror is more related to being anxious or fearful. Radcliffe considered that terror is characterized by "obscurity" or indeterminacy in its treatment of potentially horrible events, something which leads to the sublime. She says in an essay p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Blos
Joan Winsor Blos (December 9, 1928 – October 12, 2017) was an American writer, teacher and advocate for children's literacy. For her 1979 historical novel, '' A Gathering of Days'', Blos won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books"National Book Awards – 1980" . Retrieved 2012-02-27. and the for the year's most distinguished contribution to American |
George Ella Lyon
George Ella Lyon (born April 25, 1949, in Harlan, Kentucky) is an American author from Kentucky, who has published in many genres, including picture books, poetry, juvenile novels, and articles. Biography George Ella Lyon was born April 25, 1949, in Harlan, Kentucky, a coal mining town in southeastern Kentucky, to Robert Vernon, Jr. and Gladys (nee Fowler) Hoskins. She married Stephen C. Lyon, a musician, on June 3, 1972, and has since had two children with him. Lyon received a Bachelor of Arts from Centre College in Kentucky in 1971, a Master of Arts from the University of Arkansas in 1972, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Indiana University--Bloomington in 1978. In 1983, Lyon published her first writing, a poetry collection called ''Mountain''. Aside from publishing, she also taught writing at a number of colleges, including the University of Kentucky, Centre College, Transylvania University, and Radford University. She has also acted as an executive committee member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Benchley
Nathaniel Goddard Benchley (November 13, 1915 – December 14, 1981) was an American writer from Massachusetts. Early life Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the son of Robert Benchley (1889–1945), a noted American writer, humorist, critic, and actor and one founder of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City, and Gertrude Darling. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College. Benchley enlisted in the U.S. Navy prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He served as a public relations officer, and on destroyers and patrol craft in North Atlantic convoy duty (Battle of the Atlantic), and was transferred to the Pacific Theater in 1945. Writing career After the war Benchley worked for the weekly magazine ''Newsweek'' as an assistant drama editor. Harcourt, Brace published Benchley's first book in 1950, ''Side Street'', a novel featuring "hilarious activities of two New York City families living in the East Sixties"—that is, living on the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Fritz
Jean Guttery Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14, 2017) was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history. She won the Children's Legacy Literature Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986. She turned 100 in November 2015 and died in May 2017 at the age of 101. Early life Fritz was born to American Presbyterian missionaries Arthur Minton Guttery and the former Myrtle Chaney in Hankow, China, where she lived until she was twelve. Growing up, she attended a British school and kept a journal about her days in China with her amah, Lin Nai-Nai. The family emigrated to the United States when she was in eighth grade. She graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 1937 and married Michael Fritz in 1941. They had two children, David and Andrea. Career Fritz's writing career started with the publication of several short stories in ''Humpty Dumpty'' magazine early in the 1950s. Her first book, '' Bunny Hopwell's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Bunting
Anne Evelyn Bunting (née Bolton) (born December 19, 1928), also known as Eve Bunting, is a Northern Ireland-born American writer of more than 250 books. Her work covers a broad array of subjects and includes fiction and non-fiction books. Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but she has also written the text for picture books. While many of her books are set in Northern Ireland, where she grew up, her topics and settings range from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. Bunting's first book, ''The Two Giants'', was published in 1971. Due to the popularity of her books with children, she has been listed as one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors. Life Anne Evelyn Bunting was born in Maghera to Sloan Edmund Bolton, a postmaster, and Mary (''née'' Canning) Bolton, a homemaker. She married business executive Edward Davidson Bunting, whom she met in college, on March 26, 1950, and has three children: Christine, Sloan, and Glenn. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mollie Hunter
Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith (30 June 1922 – 31 July 2012) was a Scottish writer known as Mollie Hunter. She wrote fantasy for children, historical stories for young adults, and realistic novels for adults. Many of her works are inspired by Scottish history, or by Scottish or Irish folklore, with elements of magic and fantasy. Life Born and raised near Edinburgh in the small village of Longniddry, her final years were spent in Inverness. A portrait of her hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Hunter's debut was ''Patrick Kentigern Keenan'', published by Blackie and Son in 1963 with illustrations by Charles Keeping. In the U.S. it was published in 1963 as ''The Smartest Man in Ireland''. Awards For ''The Stronghold'' Mollie Hunter won the 1974 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. The same novel, published in The Netherlands as "Een toren tegen de romeinen" won the "Zilveren Griffel" (Sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgess McHargue
Georgess McHargue (June 7, 1941 – July 18, 2011) was an American writer and poet. Biography McHargue was born in New York City. After working at Golden Press, she became an editor at Doubleday. She had a long career working as an author; she published 35 books including children's fiction and nonfiction works on archaeology, history, mythology and paranormal studies. She also wrote about folklore and the occult. She was nominated for a National Book Award for ''The Beasts of Never'' (1988) and she wrote many reviews for ''The New York Times Book Review''. McHargue eventually moved to Groton, Massachusetts where she edited reports on archaeology and history for the Michael's Institute for Conservation Archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum and for their historic preservation company Timelines Inc. Her book ''Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement'' (1972) was a skeptical study of spiritualism. The book exposed fraudulent mediums and was described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Lee Gauch
Patricia Lee Gauch (born January 3, 1934) is an author who has written over 30 works of children's literature. In 1993, Gauch was inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame. She has been a resident of the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, New Jersey. She was also publisher of Philomel Books Philomel Books is a children's literature imprint of Penguin Books USA. The imprint was founded by Ann Beneduce, who was succeeded as publisher by Patricia Lee Gauch. Philomel publishes the series of children's books '' The Ranger's Apprentic ..., an imprint of Penguin Books USA. Books Her books include ''My Old Tree'' (New York: Coward-McCann. 1970), ''Christina Katerina & the Box'' (New York: Putnam & Grosset. 1971)and "The stone soup". References External linksWho Wrote That? Featuring Patricia Lee Gauch {{DEFAULTSORT:Gauch, Patricia Lee Living people 1934 births American children's writers People from Bernards Township, New Jersey American book publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Lawrence (author)
Elizabeth Holden (5 June 1943 – 6 December 2013), better known by her pen name Louise Lawrence, was an English science fiction author best known for her work published in the 1970s and 1980s. She has been classified as a writer for young adults. She died on 6 December 2013 of a heart attack in her home at Kiltimagh in Ireland, after suffering from heart problems a number of years earlier. Biography Born Elizabeth Rhoda Holden on 5th June 1943 in Leatherhead, Surrey, to bricklayer Fred Holden and cook Rhoda Edith (née Cowles), she and her younger sister Catherine attended Poplar Road Primary School, Leatherhead, between 1948 and 1954. The family then moved to the Forest of Dean, where her mother had been born and grew up, and there Lawrence attended Lydney Grammar School between 1954 and 1961. Her first published poem, “The Moon”, appeared in the Lydney Grammar School magazine in 1958. Between 1961 and 1963 she worked as a junior assistant at the Gloucestershire Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel Jr. (May 15, 1936 – March 27, 2003) was an American playwright, young adult novelist, and educator. Early life Zindel was born in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York, to Paul Zindel Sr., a policeman, and Betty Zindel, a nurse; his sister, Betty (Zindel) Hagen, was a year and a half older than him. Paul Zindel Sr. ran away with his mistress when Zindel was two, leaving the trio to move around Staten Island, living in various houses and apartments. Zindel wrote his first play in high school. Throughout his teen years, he wrote plays, though he trained as a chemist at Wagner College and spent six months working at Allied Chemical as a chemical writer after graduating. Zindel took a creative-writing course with the playwright Edward Albee while he was an undergraduate. Albee became his mentor and was an advocate for Zindel. He later quit and worked as a high-school Chemistry and Physics teacher at Tottenville High School on Staten Island for ten years. Zindel seemed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
