Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1927–2014)
Autore di The Egypt Game
Sull'Autore
Zilpha Keatley Snyder was born in Lemoore, California on May 11, 1927. She received a B.A. from Whittier College in 1948. While ultimately planning to be a writer, after graduation she decided to teach school temporarily. However, she found teaching to be an extremely rewarding experience and mostra altro taught in the upper elementary grades for a total of nine years. After all of her children were in school, she began to think of writing again. Her first book, Season of Ponies, was published in 1964. She wrote more than 40 books during her lifetime including The Trespassers, Gib Rides Home, Gib and the Gray Ghost, and William's Midsummer Dreams. She has won numerous awards including three Newbery Honor books for The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm and the 1995 John and Patricia Beatty Award for Cat Running. She died of complications from a stroke on October 08, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Opere correlate
Dragons & Dreams: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories (1986) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Treasure Island Trek; Children's Author & Illustrator Festival Saturday Oct, 18, 1969 — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1927-05-11
- Data di morte
- 2014-10-07
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Pierce Brothers Santa Paula Cemetery, Santa Paula, California, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Lemoore, California, USA
- Luogo di morte
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- complications from a stroke
- Luogo di residenza
- Ventura, California, USA
Sonoma County, California, USA
New York City, New York, USA
Marin County, California, USA - Istruzione
- Whittier College (BA | 1948)
- Attività lavorative
- teacher
young adult writer
children's book author - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1970)
Newbery Honor (1968, 1972, 1973)
Utenti
Discussioni
YA Fiction - boy rubs potion on shoulders & grows wings in Name that Book (Marzo 2012)
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1990s (1)
Girl Detectives (1)
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Best Dog Stories (1)
Ghosts (1)
1980s (1)
Cats in Fiction (1)
1970s (4)
Newbery Adjacent (4)
Books with Twins (4)
1960s (5)
Elevenses (2)
Elementary Reads (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 53
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 13,328
- Popolarità
- #1,750
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 241
- ISBN
- 397
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 31