Robin McKown (1907–1975)
Autor(a) de Marie Curie
About the Author
Obras por Robin McKown
The Resignation of Nixon: A Discredited President Gives Up the Nation's Highest Office (Focus Book) (1975) 8 exemplares
The execution of Maximilian, June 19, 1867;: A Hapsburg emperor meets disaster in the New World (A World focus book) (1973) 5 exemplares
The Republic of Zaire (formerly the Democratic Republic of the Congo) (A First book) (1972) 2 exemplares
The image of Puerto Rico; its history and its people: on the island--on the mainland (1973) 2 exemplares
Mark Twain: Novelist Humorist Satirist Grassroots Historian and Americas Unpaid Goodwill Ambassador at Large (1974) 2 exemplares
Crisis in South Africa 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1907
- Data de falecimento
- 1975
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- University of Colorado
University of Illinois - Ocupações
- children's book author
young adult writer
radio scriptwriter
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Robin McKown, née Clason, was born in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She worked for several years for a publicist in New York. She also wrote newspaper columns on contemporary authors and their work and scripts for CBS radio. In World War II, she volunteered to raise funds to help support survivors of those killed in the French Resistance. She was a prolific writer who published more than 40 works for children and young adults from the late 1950s through the 1970s. Many of these were biographies of famous people such as Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie, Thomas Paine, Eleanor Roosevelt and others.
Membros
Críticas
Listas
1964 Project (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 36
- Membros
- 311
- Popularidade
- #75,820
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 5
- ISBN
- 27
- Línguas
- 1