The Junior Book of Authors

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Stanley Kunitz, Howard Haycraft
Wilson, 1951 - Biography & Autobiography - 309 pages
Contains biographical and autobiographical sketches of 289 authors and illustrators of children's books, with 232 photographs and drawings.

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
3
Section 3
5
Section 4
15
Section 5
20
Section 6
21
Section 7
42
Section 8
50
Section 25
156
Section 26
164
Section 27
168
Section 28
175
Section 29
183
Section 30
187
Section 31
195
Section 32
198

Section 9
53
Section 10
57
Section 11
62
Section 12
63
Section 13
67
Section 14
69
Section 15
71
Section 16
81
Section 17
95
Section 18
100
Section 19
114
Section 20
129
Section 21
137
Section 22
138
Section 23
141
Section 24
152
Section 33
204
Section 34
227
Section 35
240
Section 36
243
Section 37
244
Section 38
246
Section 39
252
Section 40
264
Section 41
284
Section 42
285
Section 43
294
Section 44
298
Section 45
301
Section 46
302
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About the author (1951)

Stanley Kunitz was born in July 1905 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated summa cum laude in 1926 from Harvard Collegeand earned a master's degree in English from Harvard the following year. After Harvard, he went to work as a reporter for the Worcester Telegram and as an editor for the H.W. Wilson Company where he was co-editor for Twentieth Century Authors and other reference books. After W.W. II he began a teaching career at several known colleges such as: Bennington College, New York State Teachers College in Potsdam, New York and New School of Social Research, Universty of Washington. His poems started to appear in Poetry, Commonweal, and The New Republic. Some of his most popular collections of poems are - Intellectual Things, Passport to the War, and Passing Through: The Later Poems. His most recent honors include the Harvard Centennial Medal (1992), the National Medal of Arts (1993), and an "In Celebration of Writers" award from Poets & Writers (1999). He continued to write and publish as later as 2005. He died in May 2006.

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