Gloria Whelan
Autor/a de Homeless Bird
Sobre l'autor
Gloria Whelan was born on November 23, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan. She took a strong interest in reading early in life when she was bedridden for a year with rheumatic fever. She dictated stories to her sister who would then type them. She then went on to writing poetry and later editing her high mostra'n més school newspaper. She attended the University of Michigan and earned her B.S.degree and M.S.W. degree. She began working as a social worker in Minneapolis and Detroit. She soon became tired of Detroit's hectic pace and moved to a cabin in northern Michigan.This peace was disrupted by an oil company 's desire to drill on her property. Because she did not own the mineral rights, the drilling proceeded. This experience inspired Gloria Whelan to write her children's novel, A Clearing in the Forest in 1978, which was about a boy working on an oilrig. Gloria Whelan has written several works of fiction for children and adults, many set in rural Michigan. She has also written stories set in exotic places like China and India. She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000 for Homeless Bird - the story of a young woman in India abandoned by her mother-in-law. mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Gloria Whelan
The Pathless Woods: Ernest Hemingway's Sixteenth Summer in Northern Michigan (Ernest Hemingway's Great Lakes… (1981) 17 exemplars
Summer of the Tree Army: A Civilian Conservation Corps Story (Tales of Young Americans) (2021) 8 exemplars
Island of the Blue Dolphins / The Indian School / Soft Rain / The Sign of the Beaver (1996) 7 exemplars
Chu Ju's house 1 exemplars
the turning 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Rewoldt, Gloria (birth)
- Data de naixement
- 1923-11-23
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Detroit, Michigan, USA (birth)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Mancelona, Michigan, USA - Educació
- University of Michigan (B.S.)
University of Michigan (M.S.W.) - Professions
- writer
- Premis i honors
- Michigan Author Award (1998)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 68
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 10,438
- Popularitat
- #2,279
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 243
- ISBN
- 372
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 4