Who Were They Really?: The True Stories Behind Famous Characters

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Millbrook Press, 1999 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 72 pages
In a heavily illustrated, scrapbook format, readers will learn about the real-life people behind the beloved book characters they've come to know. From Christopher Robin and Peter Rabbit to Peter Pan's Lost Boys and Alice in Wonderland, award-winning author Susan Beth Pfeffer explores the real lives of the real people who inspired the creation of literature's greatest characters. There are even a few surprises about Mother Goose!

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Contents

Section 1
22
Section 2
27
Section 3
54
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About the author (1999)

Susan Beth Pfeffer was born in New York City in 1948, and grew up in the city and its nearby suburbs. At the age of six, when her father wrote and published a book, Pfeffer decided she, too, wanted to be a writer; that year, she wrote her first story. She didn't write her first published book, until much later. Just Morgan, a young adult novel, was written during her final semester at New York University, and published the following year. Since then, Pfeffer has been a full-time writer for young people. She has won numerous awards and citations for her work, which ranges from picture books to middle-grade and young-adult novels and includes both contemporary and historical fiction. Her young adult novel About David was awarded the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. Her young adult novel The Year Without Michael, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award, was named by the American Library Association as one of the hundred best books for teenagers written between 1968-1993. Pfeffer has also written a book for adults on writing for children. She has written over 60 books for children and young adults.

Bibliographic information

TitleWho Were They Really?: The True Stories Behind Famous Characters
AuthorSusan Beth Pfeffer
Editionillustrated
PublisherMillbrook Press, 1999
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedDec 14, 2010
ISBN0761304053, 9780761304050
Length72 pages
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Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Literary
Juvenile Nonfiction / Literary Criticism & Collections
Psychology / Personality
  
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