Sam Swope is an
author and the 2006
Thurber House children's writer in residence.
Works by Swope include ''I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories'', a memoir recounting three years Swope spent teaching writing students at a
Queens, New York, public school.
''I Am a Pencil'' won a 2005
Christopher Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, The Bechtel Prize, and was "named one of the best books of 2004 by ''Publishers Weekly''."
Swope has reviewed books for the ''
New York Times''.
Books
*''I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories'';
*''The Araboolies of Liberty Street'';
*''The Krazees'';
*''Gotta Go! Gotta Go!'';
*''Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants'';
References
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American children's writers
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