Judith Morgan
Autore di Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel
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Opere di Judith Morgan
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Morgan, Judith
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- La Jolla, California, USA
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - Istruzione
- University of Montana
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
columnist - Relazioni
- Morgan, Neil (husband)
- Breve biografia
- Judith and Neil Morgan are California journalists. Jointly they have written many articles for National Geographic and other magazines.
Judith Blakely Morgan grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, graduated from the University of Montana, and served as an Inter-American Press Association fellow in Latin American and as a newspaper reporter. The travel column she has written since 1975 appears worldwide through Copley News Service. [adapted from Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel (1995)]
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 330
- Popolarità
- #71,937
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 8
I'll admit, I wasn't too sure about this book early on, as I found myself thinking that it was fine and all, but Geisel's life simply wasn't anywhere near as interesting as his work. Despite a surprisingly dramatic development or two, that is very much true, but I found myself growing fond of the biography after a while, anyway. Possibly just because it is liberally peppered with quotes and jokes and comments from the man himself, and, gosh, he really was exactly as offbeat and witty and delightful as you would expect. And the account of his death, and the tributes paid to him afterward, actually choked me up a little bit. Also, it's interesting as a portrait of a life that spanned most of the 20th century; the earlier chapters do perhaps provide a lens through which to view some history that is already fading from living memory.
(By the way, I kind of don't want to, but I guess I really need to address this or it's something of an elephant -- sadly, not Horton -- in the room. So: no, the reason I read this now isn't as some sort of protest against the recent-ish decision of Seuss' publishers to stop printing a few of his works because they contain racially stereotyped images that I'm sure raised no eyebrows among white people at the time, but that the publishers obviously feel aren't something they want to put in front of 21st century children. The timing was purely coincidence. And while I can't say what Mr. Geisel would have thought about the whole thing, having read the bio I can be pretty sure that the people who are most vocally offended by that aren't the sort of folks he would approve of. And that's all I have to say about that.)… (altro)