Jim Murphy (2) (1947–2022)
Autor(a) de The Great Fire
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About the Author
Jim Murphy has written more than twenty-five books for young people. In addition to the Newbery Honor, which he received for The Great Fire, he has won many other awards, including the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor. He is also the two-time winner of mostrar mais both the SCBWI Golden Kite Award and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Mr. Murphy lives with his family in Maplewood, New Jersey mostrar menos
Obras por Jim Murphy
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (2003) 1,246 exemplares
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883 (1998) 1,194 exemplares
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863 (1998) 1,078 exemplares
My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1881 (2001) 543 exemplares
The Journal of Brian Doyle: A Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874 (2004) 109 exemplares
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever (2015) 101 exemplares
Associated Works
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 1980 — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Murphy, James John Patrick
- Data de nascimento
- 1947
- Data de falecimento
- 2022-05-01
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Woodstock, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Kearny, New Jersey, USA
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA - Educação
- Rutgers University (Bx | English)
Radcliffe College - Ocupações
- children's book editor
managing editor
writer - Relações
- Blank, Alison (wife)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Margaret A. Edwards Award, American Library Association (2010)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 41
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 10,332
- Popularidade
- #2,300
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 281
- ISBN
- 227
- Línguas
- 6
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
Apparently, drawings were heavily used in the newspapers at the time - I didn't know that. Interesting that there were photos of the Blizzard too.
Of course, forecasting was in its infancy & the weatherman of the day were looking at a scientific approach, where the farmers and seamen would have been a whole lot more knowledgeable, if the forecasters would have listened.