Anne Terry White (February 19, 1896 – July 1980) was a Russian Empire-born American writer and translator. The daughter of Aaron and Sarah Terry, she was born Anne Terry in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, and came to the United States with her family at the age of 8. She was educated at

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and obtained a master's degree from

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in 1925. She worked as a teacher and social worker. Besides writing books for young people, she also translated works for children from Russian to English. In 1918, she married

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; the couple had two daughters. In 1937, she published ''Heroes of the Five Books'' about characters from the

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, her first book. Her books were primarily non-fiction on a variety of subjects, including archaeology, anthropology, other various scientific topics and biographies. She also published adaptions of myths, fairy tales and classic children's literature.

Selected works

* ''Three Children and Shakespeare'' (1938) * ''Men Before Adam'' (1942) * ''

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: The Story of a Great American'' (1953) * ''All About the Stars'' (1954) * ''All About Great Rivers of the World'' (1957) * ''Rocks All Around Us'' (1959) * ''Birds of the World'' (1962) * ''The American Indian'' (1963 * ''With Dersu the Hunter: Adventures in the Taiga'' (1965) adapted from a work by

Vladimir Arsenyev Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev, (russian: Влади́мир Кла́вдиевич Арсе́ньев; 10 September 1872 – 4 September 1930) was a Russian explorer of the Far East who recounted his travels in a series of books — "По ...

* ''Man, the Thinker'' (1967) with G. S. Lietz * ''North to Liberty: The Story of the Underground Railroad'' (1972) * ''Prehistoric America,'' Landmark Books Series published by Random House (1951)

References

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