Re: GEN: need Bios on authors

[Mary Miner <mminer@MOTHER.ESU1.K12.NE.US>]

I do recommend the Gale series "Something about the Author"

mary miner, teacher/librarian
Niobrara Public Schools, NE
mminer@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us
she who never climbed, never fell

On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jody Newman wrote:

> Dear LM_NETters:
>
> I turn to you once more for guidance.  In Massachusetts, we have
> Community Readers Day when community "celebrities" come into the schools
> to read a story to the children.  A committee selects books for the day
> and they are purchased by a bank for distribution to every classroom
> teacher in the schools which participate.
>
> This year, to enhance the day, I thought I would try to dig up some
> biographical information on the authors of the books that the teachers
> selected.  I have been out on the NET and found very little.  I have
> saved bios on Authors/Illustrators from magazines over the years and
> found good stuff for Eve Bunting (How Many Days to America), Diane Goode
> (Diane Goode Book of American Folktales), and William Steig (Amos &
> Boris).  But I have many others for which I have nothing.  I'm hoping that
> some of you might have some goodies to share or sites to recommend where
> I might find bios for:  Mary-Joan Gerson (Why the Sky is Far Away),
> Gregory Maguire (Seven Spiders Spinning), Jack Prelutsky (The Baby Uggs
> Are Hatching), Adrien Stoutenburg (American Tall Tales), Bruce Brooks
> (The Moves Make the Man), Michael Dorris (Guests).  I have a little on
> Lawrence Yep (Tree of Dreams: Ten Tales from the Garden of Night), and
> Robert Kimmel Smith (The War With Grandpa), but could use more.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Reading Day is Wednesday, April 9th.
>
> Jody Newman
> Center School
> Stow  MA
> newmanj@meol.mass.edu
>