Gloria Whelan
Autor(a) de Homeless Bird
About the Author
Gloria Whelan was born on November 23, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan. She took a strong interest in reading early in life when she was bedridden for a year with rheumatic fever. She dictated stories to her sister who would then type them. She then went on to writing poetry and later editing her high mostrar mais school newspaper. She attended the University of Michigan and earned her B.S.degree and M.S.W. degree. She began working as a social worker in Minneapolis and Detroit. She soon became tired of Detroit's hectic pace and moved to a cabin in northern Michigan.This peace was disrupted by an oil company 's desire to drill on her property. Because she did not own the mineral rights, the drilling proceeded. This experience inspired Gloria Whelan to write her children's novel, A Clearing in the Forest in 1978, which was about a boy working on an oilrig. Gloria Whelan has written several works of fiction for children and adults, many set in rural Michigan. She has also written stories set in exotic places like China and India. She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000 for Homeless Bird - the story of a young woman in India abandoned by her mother-in-law. mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Gloria Whelan
The Pathless Woods: Ernest Hemingway's Sixteenth Summer in Northern Michigan (Ernest Hemingway's Great Lakes… (1981) 16 exemplares
Summer of the Tree Army: A Civilian Conservation Corps Story (Tales of Young Americans) (2021) 8 exemplares
Island of the Blue Dolphins / The Indian School / Soft Rain / The Sign of the Beaver (1996) 7 exemplares
Chu Ju's house 1 exemplar
the turning 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Rewoldt, Gloria (birth)
- Data de nascimento
- 1923-11-23
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Locais de residência
- Detroit, Michigan, USA (birth)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Mancelona, Michigan, USA - Educação
- University of Michigan (B.S.)
University of Michigan (M.S.W.) - Ocupações
- writer
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Michigan Author Award (1998)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 68
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 10,322
- Popularidade
- #2,302
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 241
- ISBN
- 372
- Línguas
- 6
- Marcado como favorito
- 4
"In 1843, with all their possessions loaded onto a single wagon, young Louisa May Alcott and her family bravely venture into the wilderness. Louisa's father is determined to realize his vision of a perfect life: one where people live in peace with each other and with nature, surviving off the land. Louisa keeps a journal in which she vows to try to uphold her father's high ideals.
But her family's journey can't erase her own dreams, doubts, frustrations, and fears. With the words "This is to be my secret diary," Louisa begins recording a very different version of events. Unfolding together, the two accounts reveal one remarkable tale of young writer finding her voice.
Based on Louisa May Alcott's own journals, National Book Award winner Gloria Whelan's novel breathes new life into a forgotten chapter from the youth of the beloved author of Little Women.
Author's Note:
In 1843, when Louisa May Alcott was ten years old, Louisa, her sisters Anna, twelve, Lizzie, seven, and two-year-old Abby May settled with their mother and father on a farm they called Fruitlands. It was the dream of Louisa's father together around him men and women who shared his vision of a more perfect world. Louisa's experiences at Fruitlands were both sad and funny.
From the time she first learned to write, Louisa kept a journal. It is believed that her father destroyed a part of her Fruitlands journal. Louisa herself, when she was older, destroyed many of her diaries. Only nine brief journal entries about her eight months at Fruitlands remain. I have imagined the diary that Louisa might have kept as well as a secret diary that told of her thoughts. This book is fiction, but it is based on real happenings. Fruitlands itself is now a wonderful museum where you may see, among many mementos of those days, the attic where Louisa and her sisters slept and a lock of Louisa's hair.… (mais)