Steven Lawrence Kroll (August 11, 1941 – March 8, 2011) was an American children's book author. He wrote 96 books, including '' Is Milton Missing?'' (1975), '' The Biggest Pumpkin Ever'' (1984), ''

Sweet America ''Sweet America'' was the twelfth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie and her last before retiring from music to work on ''Sesame Street'' and in education. The album was dedicated to the American Indian Movement and featured some songs with triba ...

'' (2000), '' When I Dream of Heaven'' (2000), '' Jungle Bullies'' (2006).

Biography

Born in

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

, he attended the

McBurney School McBurney School was a boys college-preparatory school in Manhattan run by the YMCA of Greater New York. Its name commemorates Robert Ross McBurney, a prominent New York YMCA leader during the late 19th century. Among its alumni are actors Henry W ...

and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, graduating with a degree in American history and literature in 1962. Prior to becoming a full-time author, he was an editor at

Chatto & Windus Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his business ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

and

Holt, Rinehart & Winston Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in high schools. The Holt name is derived from that of U.S. publisher Henry Holt (1840–1926), co-founder of the e ...

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kroll, Steven Lawrence 1941 births 2011 deaths American children's writers American book editors People from Manhattan Harvard University alumni McBurney School alumni