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.........Max Fatchen started his journalistic career in the 1930s on the afternoon paper The News and won a wide and loyal following for his columns in that journal from 1948 and The Advertiser from 1955.

A piano teacher, she lived in Washington, Arkansas.

"My motivation in writing Big Doc's Girl [which has been made into a television drama] was almost one of anger; Arkansas was chiefly known as a place of hillbillies and barefooted fiddlers sitting on a barrel in front of a run-down cabin--and I knew that there was beauty and dignity in those people and that state. Therefore, I wrote of my childhood among the `have not' people and tried to show the unique simplicity and character of my people."

According to this, which was posted in November -

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- she died in 1988, in Ruovesi, Finland.

And, it seems, people aren't sure if she was born in 1917 or 1918.

I can't find more information than that.

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I can't seem to find an obit - and there's disagreement on whether he was born in 1919 or 1920. However, he died on April 13th, less than a month before his birthday, according to familysearch.org.

He was born in Chicago and went to Swarthmore College, B.A., 1941; University of Pennsylvania, M.A.

Aka Helene Frank. Her birthday was on the 28th.

Born in NYC, she attended San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University), 1950-51, and University of Lausanne, 1951-53. She now lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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OK, so he didn't write the book FOR teens, but still......

For those who don't know, E.R. Braithwaite is from Guyana.

His birthdate has been listed as 1912, 1920 and 1922. However, there seems to be a bit more evidence now for the first date:

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Real name: Elfrieda Olga Prittwitz.

She was born in 1932, but I can't find the exact date. However, one source says she lives in Johnson City, New York (on the Pennsylvania border) which, as it happens, is about five miles from the village of Endicott, birthplace of quite a few famous people - plus, Endicott was the basis, reportedly, for the wonderful 1924 preschool chapter book "The Poppy Seed Cakes," illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham!

She died about two weeks before her 86th birthday.

She lived in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

"The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches" was eventually animated.

Quote:
When asked why so many witch books, she answers, "Probably because with witches anything can happen!"

I knew Low mainly for her adaptation of "Taro and the Bamboo Shoot" (1962) by Masako Matsuno (illustrated by Yasuo Segawa), about a boy who, when he happens to grab a bamboo shoot that's growing fast, gets taken into the sky until his family can cut down the bamboo - and when they follow the shoot and find him after walking for a whole day or so, they find much more than they hoped for.

And more:

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Lenona.

She lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

(Lincoln is sometimes described as a "suburb of Boston." Not quite accurate, IMO. After all, when you think of suburbia, chances are you don't think of lush meadows, woods, ponds, big lovely houses that are two centuries old and older, farms, horses, and sheep.)

He died just days before his 77th birthday.

He lived in Westhaven, Gosberton-Westhorpe, Lincolnshire, England.

From "Contemporary Authors":

".......I believe it is wrong to write about things one has not seen. This is, of course, not always possible. For my book on Caesar I would like to visit the battlefield of Dyrrhachium in Albania, but so far the Albanian government has not granted permission. It would be impossible to write the sort of books that I do if my motivation were profit. They require an enormous amount of research and travel; I have just returned from an eight thousand-mile trip around the Caesarian battlefields of western Europe.

She grew up in Slovakia, but in 2002, she moved to Buffalo.

In 2008, she was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

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Need I say more?

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His birthday was yesterday.

Aka David Compton Lambert, he was an editor for Rathbone Books. Not to be confused with the American astronomer, David L. Lambert.

From "Contemporary Authors":

".........Rathbone's editors rewrote for laymen much indigestible text provided by academics. Clear exposition was in; purple prose out. The firm favored the drill sergeant's formula: `First you tell them what you've going to tell them. Then you tell them. Then you tell them what you've told them.' Editing involved sniffing out muddled and gappy thinking and delving into unfamiliar technical subjects to clarify particular points. The end products were chapters broken down into double-page spreads containing closely linked paragraphs, launched by lead sentences. Rewrites stressed short sentences with lively, active voice verbs. Editors avoided technical jargon and explained each unfamiliar term the first time it appeared. They were less creative writers than craftsmen like plumbers or carpenters--or newspaper journalists. Indeed, liaison with designers and artists taught Rathbone Books wordsmiths that a well-captioned diagram could often express complex facts more clearly than an acre of text.

Guys,

Chevalier artist Monique MacNaughton and I started a Facebook page for
our little fairy tale fantasy adventure "Chevalier: The Queen's
Mouseketeer". It just went up, so it's baby fresh. We'll be filling it
with more content ASAP. You can check it out here:

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Christmas with Raymond Briggs
“I’m not a fan of Christmas, although I support the principle of a day
of feasting and presents, but the anxiety starts in October: how many
are coming? Are they bringing grandchildren? How long will they stay?”

A nice, short update about the creator of The Snowman:

(Not to be confused with the late British illustrator or the 50-ish novelist, Richard David Kennedy.)

Aka Jerome Richard Kennedy, he lives in Newport, Oregon.

Politics: "Innocent Bystander." Religion: "Bound for Glory."

Seven of his books were illustrated by Marcia Sewall. He's been praised by Michael Patrick Hearn and Lloyd Alexander.

"Since his retirement, he has spent his summers in Barton, Vermont at a place he has owned since 1969, and his winters in Martha's Vineyard."

".....selected one of the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age: 19880, 1981, and 1982."

(It's not clear how many of his books are aimed at teens.)

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