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Author and Illustrator Almanac

August 2008

The August 2008 Author Almanac was prepared by the 2007-2008 7th grade Gifted Students at Ephrata Middle School, Ephrata, PA, under the direction of Nancy L. Henry, library media specialist, and Marcie Palko, gifted teacher. This project met some parts of the students' IEPs concerning research and technology.

August 1

Francis Scott Key—1779-1843
http://www.francisscottkey.org/
http://www.mdoe.org/keyFS.html

Herman Melville—1819-1891
http://www.online-literature.com/melville/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/melville.htm

Rose Macauley—1881-1958

Michael Martchenko—1942-
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/947/Martchenko-Michael-1942.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/michael-martchenko-children-s-author

Gail Gibbons—1944-
http://www.gailgibbons.com/

Bill Wallace—1947-
http://wallacebooks.com/index.php?pageid=2

Sheila Hamanaka—?

August 2

Holling C. Holling—1900-1973
http://www.recess.ufl.edu/transcripts/2005/0802.shtml
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=4251

James Baldwin—1924-1987
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jbaldwin.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/baldwin_j.html
http://aalbc.com/authors/james.htm

James Howe—1946-
http://www.bcplonline.org/kidspage/kids_howe.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collateral.jsp?id=1297_type=Contributor_typeId=3599
http://www.answers.com/topic/james-howe-children-s-author
http://www.embracingthechild.org/ajhowe.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Howe

August 3

Ernie Pyle—1900-1945
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2Timeline/erniepyle.html

Walter van Tilburg Clark—1909-1971
http://www.library.unr.edu/friends/hallfame/clark.html
http://www.onlinenevada.org/Walter_Van_Tilburg_Clark

P. D. James—1920-
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth193
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/pdjames/abouttheauthor.html
http://pbpl.physics.ucla.edu/~yoder/mystery/james-bio.html

Leon Uris—1924-2003
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/uris.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/156/Leon_Uris.html

Mary Calhoun—1926-
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=11883

Steve Sanfield—1937-

August 4

Percy Bysshe Shelley—1792-1822
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/percy_bysshe_shelley/biography
http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRshelley.htm

Joyce McDonald—1946-
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-mcdonald-joyce.asp
http://www.answers.com/topic/joyce-mcdonald

Nancy White Carlstrom—1948-
http://www.nancywhitecarlstrom.com/
http://www.answers.com/topic/nancy-white-carlstrom

Laurence Anholt—1957-
http://www.anholt.co.uk/index.htm

August 5

Guy de Maupassant—1850-1893
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/maupassa.htm
http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/

Ruth Sawyer—1880-1970
http://www.britannica.com

Conrad Aiken—1889-1973
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/caiken.htm
http://www.poemhunter.com/conrad-potter-aiken/biography/

August 6

Alfred Lord Tennyson—1809-1892
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennybio.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tennyson.htm
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/tennyson.htm

Barbara Cooney—1917-2000
http://www.ortakales.com/Illustrators/Cooney.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cooney
http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/bcooney.html
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000002642,00.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/bcooney.htm
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2005-01/a-2005-01-29-2-1.cfm

Richard Hofstadter—1916-1970
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/richard-hofstadter/

Frank Asch—1946-
http://www.frankasch.com
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asch.htm

August 7

Betsy Byars—1928-
http://www.betsybyars.com/
http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/byars.html
http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/authors/byars.cfm
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/byars.htm
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=3960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Byars

Garrison Keillor—1942-
http://people.mnhs.org/authors/biog_detail.cfm?PersonID=Keil480
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9361805

Colleen Salley—?-
http://www.coleensalley.com
http://www.mardigrasunmasked.com/mardigras/colorfulcharacters/Coleen_Salley.htm
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2030/Salley-Coleen.html

August 8

Sara Teasdale—1884-1933
http://www.poemhunter.com/sara-teasdale/biography/
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sara_teasdale/biography

Majorie Kinnan Rawlings—1869-1953
http://www.infoplease.com
http://www.biblio.com/authors/128/Marjorie_Kinnan_Rawlings_Biography.html

Candy Dawson Boyd—1946-

August 9

Izaak Walton—1593-1683
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/iwalton.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/287/Izaak_Walton.html

John Dryden—1613-1700
http://www.online-literature.com/dryden/
http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/john_dryden_001.html
http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/dryden/drydenbio.htm

P. L. Travers—1899-1996
http://www.geocities.com/merrystar3/travers.html

Seymour Simon—1931-
http://www.seymoursimon.com/digitalMedia/presentation.html
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/tnc/mtai/simon.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/askauthor/simon.html
http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/ssimon.html

Jose Aruego—1932-
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=11745

Patricia McKissack—1944-
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=20049
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/mckissack_patricia.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3372
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/mckissack.html
http://dept.kent.edu/VirginiaHamiltonconf/mckiss.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_C._McKissack
http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2008/02/08/patricia-c-mckissack/

August 10

Thomas Dygard—1931-1996
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/16333/Thomas_J_Dygard/index.aspx

Tony Ross—1938-
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A0284033B20nLl2CCBDF1

August 11

Don Freeman—1908-1978
http://www.sullivangoss.com/DonFreeman/

Alex Haley—1921-1992
http://www.kintehaley.org/haleybio.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahaley.htm

George Sullivan—1927-
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838078/

Steven Kroll—1941-
http://www.stevenkrollauthor.com/

Joanna Coles—1944-
http://www.hearstcorp.com/biographies/mag_bio_editor_marieclaire.html

Sally Keehn—1947-
http://www.sallykeehn.com/

August 12

Katherine Lee Bates—1859-1929
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Bates_Katherine_Lee.html

Edith Hamilton—1867-1963
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/hamilton-e.html

Mary Roberts Rinehart—1876-1958
http://www.online-literature.com/mary-rinehart/

Mary Ann Hoberman—1930-
http://www.maryannhoberman.com/

William Goldman—1931-

Walter Dean Myers—1937-
http://www.walterdeanmyers.net/
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-myers-walterdean.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dean_Myers
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/wdmyers.html
http://dept.kent.edu/VirginiaHamiltonconf/Myersbio.htm

Frederick McKissack—1939-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/mckissack.html

Deborah Howe—1946-1978
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=13679

Tim Wynne-Jones—1948-
http://www.timwynne-jones.com/

Ann M. Martin—1955-
http://www.scholastic.com/annmartin/

August 13

Alfred Hitchcock—1899-1980
http://hitchcock.tv/bio/bio.html

August 14

Ernest Thayer—1863-1940
http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03512.html

Alice Provensen—1918-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-14aproven.html

Danielle Steel—1947-
http://www.biblio.com/authors/655/Danielle_Steel_Biography.html

Gary Larson—1950-
http://www.punoftheday.com/gary-larson.html

August 15

Sir Walter Scott—1771-1832
http://www.online-literature.com/walter_scott/
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/scott.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wscott.htm

Edith Nesbit—1858-1924
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUnesbit.htm
http://www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit/

Edna Ferber—1885-1968
http://www.apl.org/history/ferber/edna.bio.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ferber.html

Brinton Turkle—1915-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-15turkle.html

Jane Resh Thomas—1936-
http://www.janereshthomas.com/

Theresa Nelson—1948-
http://www.theresanelson.net/

August 16

T. E. Lawrence—1888-1935
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/telawren.htm

Matt Christopher—1917-1997
http://www.mattchristopher.com/
http://www.ipl.org/div/askauthor/Christopher.html

Diana Wynne Jones—1934-
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=908

Eileen Spinelli—1942-
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Spinelli__Eileen.html

August 17

Geneva Grace Stratton Porter—1863-1924
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-17porter.html

Myra Cohn Livingston—1926-1996
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-17lvngstn.html

Ariane Dewey—1937-
http://www.ariane-dewey.com

August 18

Sonia Levitin—1934-
http://www.sonialevitin.com/index2.html

Joan Carris—1938-
http://www.joancarrisbooks.com/

Paula Danziger—1944-2004
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-danziger-paula.asp
http://www.scholastic.com/titles/paula/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Danziger
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/amberbrown/aapd.html
http://www.bookpage.com/9602bp/childrens/pauladanziger.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/paula_danziger.html

August 19

Ogden Nash—1902-1971
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/673
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash
http://www.aenet.org/poems/ognash1.htm

James Gould Cozzens—1903-1978
http://www.accuracyproject.org/cbe-Cozzens,JamesGould.html

Frank McCourt—1931-
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_frank_mccourt.html

Barbara Wersba—1932-
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/barbara-wersba2-aya/

August 20

H. P. Lovecraft—1890-1937
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lovecraf.htm

Belinda Hurmence—1921-
http://www.blairpub.com/history/beforefreedom.htm

Jacqueline Susann—1921-1974
http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-082004-susann.html

Sue Alexander—1933-
http://www.sue-alexander.com/html/home.html

August 21

X. J. Kennedy—1929-
http://www.poemtree.com/Kennedy.htm

Sharon M. Draper—1948-
http://sharondraper.com/bio.asp

Arthur Yorinks—1953-
http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Arthur-Yorinks.html

Claudia Mills—1954-
http://www.claudiamills.co.uk/

August 22

Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker—1893-1967
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/parker.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dparker.htm

Ray Bradbury—1920-
http://raybradburyonline.com/biography.htm
http://www.spaceagecity.com/bradbury/bio.htm

E. Annie Proulx—1935-
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pe-Pu/Proulx-E-Annie.html

Will Hobbs—1947-
http://www.willhobbsauthor.com/meet.html

John Bianchi—?
http://www.johnbianchi.com

August 23

Edgar Lee Masters—1869-1950
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/emasters.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/130/Edgar%20Lee_Masters.html

Melvin Berger—1927-
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1283

August 24

Dean Hughes—1943-
http://www.deanhughes.net/

August 25

Bret Harte—1836-1902
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/18661913/lit/harte.htm
http://www.online-literature.com/bret-harte/

Walt Kelly—1913-1973
http://www.bpib.com/kelly.htm

Virginia Euwer Wolff—1937-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-25wolff.html

Frederick Forsyth—1938-
http://www.biblio.com/authors/27/Frederick_Forsyth_Biography.html
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4322/Forsyth-Frederick.html

Charles Ghigna—1946-
http://www.charlesghigna.com

Amis Martin—1949-
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth7

Ian Falconer—1959-
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=968049

Lane Smith—1959-
http://www.lanesmithbooks.com/

Rachael Ray—1968-
http://www.rachaelraymag.com/about-rachael/rachael-ray-biography/article.html

August 26

Earl Derr Biggers—1884-1933
http://www.orrt.org/biggers/
http://www.answers.com/topic/earl-derr-biggers?cat=entertainment

Christopher Isherwood—1904-1986
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/isherwoo.htm
http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/isherwood.htm

Patricia Beatty—1922-1991
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/patricia-beatty-aya/

August 27

Theodore Dreiser—1871-1945
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/dreiser/tdbio.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dreiser.htm

Lloyd C. Douglas—1877-1951
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lcdougla.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/352/Lloyd%20C_Douglas.html

C. S. Forester—1899-1966
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/forester.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/483/C%20S_Forester.html

Nora Robinson Lofts—1904-1983

Arlene Mosel—1921-1996

Suzy Kline—1943-
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/707/Kline-Suzy-1943.html

Suzanne Fisher Staples—1945-
http://www.suzannefisherstaples.com/

Sarah Stewart—?
http://www.pippinproperties.com/authill/stewart/

August 28

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe—1749-1832
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goethe.htm
http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.210/

Roger Duvoisin—1904-1980
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Duvoisin

Roger Tory Peterson—1908-1996
http://www.rtpi.org/?page_id=62
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/peterson/rtp/biography.shtml

Tasha Tudor—1915-2008
http://www.tashatudorandfamily.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasha_tudor
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/20/america/obits.php

F. N. Monjo—1924-1978

Kevin Hawkes—1959-
http://www.kevinhawkes.com/home.htm

Brian Pinkney—1961-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/tnc/mtai/bpinkney.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/jerry-brian-pinkney

August 29

Oliver Wendell Holmes—1809-1894
http://www.2020site.org/poetry/owh.html
http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-holmes/

Joseph Jacobs—1854-1916
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/jacobs.html

Albert Lebrun—1876-1950
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9047557/Albert-Lebrun

Nathan Pritikin—1915-1985
http://www.pritikin.com/pritikin/pritikin_NathanPritikin.shtml

Karen Hesse—1952-
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312210/KarenHesse.html

August 30

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley—1797-1851
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mshelley.htm

John Gunther—1901-1970
http://www.nndb.com/people/875/000048731/

Virginia Lee Burton—1909-1968
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/mike_mulligan/biohome.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Lee_Burton
http://www.virginialeeburton.com/

Donald Crews—1938-
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=16149
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crews
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n1_v32/ai_20610477

August 31

William Saroyan—1908-1981
http://www.kalinian-saroyan.com/biography/wsaroyan_bio_engl.html
http://www.williamsaroyansociety.org/chro.html
http://www.litweb.net/biography/386/William_Saroyan.html

Dennis Lee—1939-
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/34

Deborah Kogan Ray—1940-
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1671/Kogan-Ray-Deborah-1940-Deborah-Kogan-Deborah-Ray.html


 
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