Jim Murphy (2) (1947–2022)
Autor/a de The Great Fire
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Sobre l'autor
Jim Murphy has written more than twenty-five books for young people. In addition to the Newbery Honor, which he received for The Great Fire, he has won many other awards, including the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor. He is also the two-time winner of mostra'n més both the SCBWI Golden Kite Award and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Mr. Murphy lives with his family in Maplewood, New Jersey mostra'n menys
Obres de Jim Murphy
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (2003) 1,245 exemplars
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883 (1998) 1,201 exemplars
My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1881 (2001) 548 exemplars
The Journal of Brian Doyle: A Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874 (2004) 109 exemplars
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever (2015) 100 exemplars
Obres associades
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 1980 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Murphy, James John Patrick
- Data de naixement
- 1947
- Data de defunció
- 2022-05-01
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Woodstock, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Kearny, New Jersey, USA
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA - Educació
- Rutgers University (Bx | English)
Radcliffe College - Professions
- children's book editor
managing editor
writer - Relacions
- Blank, Alison (wife)
- Premis i honors
- Margaret A. Edwards Award, American Library Association (2010)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 41
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 10,370
- Popularitat
- #2,292
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 281
- ISBN
- 227
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 1
Apparently, drawings were heavily used in the newspapers at the time - I didn't know that. Interesting that there were photos of the Blizzard too.
Of course, forecasting was in its infancy & the weatherman of the day were looking at a scientific approach, where the farmers and seamen would have been a whole lot more knowledgeable, if the forecasters would have listened.