Allan W. Eckert (1931–2011)
Autore di Incident at Hawk's Hill
Sull'Autore
Allan W. Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York on January 30, 1931. He served in the United States Air Force and attended the University of Dayton and Ohio State University. He was a historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright. He wrote over 40 books during his lifetime mostra altro including A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood, Wild Season, The Silent Sky, The Frontiersmen, Wilderness Empire, The Conquerors, and A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, which were all nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. He received the Newbery Honor Book Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill. He also wrote almost all of the scripts for television's Wild Kingdom and adapted The Frontiersmen into the play Tecumseh! He died of prostate cancer on July 7, 2011 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Eckert, Allan Wesley
- Data di nascita
- 1931-01-30
- Data di morte
- 2011-07-07
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Corona, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA - Istruzione
- University of Dayton
Ohio State University - Attività lavorative
- historian
playwright
children's book author
novelist - Organizzazioni
- United States Air Force
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Discussioni
Child's 1980s novel about boy who can enter animals' minds in Name that Book (Aprile 2018)
a childrens book about a boy who lives in a badger hole in Name that Book (Ottobre 2015)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 46
- Opere correlate
- 11
- Utenti
- 4,892
- Popolarità
- #5,136
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 60
- ISBN
- 181
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 6
I won’t say more in case someone actually wants to read this. If you have a deep interest in animals, or ever daydreamed (like I did as a kid) about being able to fly like a bird, run as fast as a horse, walk quietly in the night as a cat seeing everything clearly . . . this book will become an instant favorite. There was so much love of nature woven into the story, and fantastic details about how wild animals live their lives, even new things the boy discovered about them (but then couldn’t tell anybody how he’d learned it). This is the greatest by Eckert I’ve read so far- even tops Incident at Hawk’s Hill, which has always been steadfastly among the best books ever, in my mind.… (altro)