Jim Murphy (2) (1947–2022)
Auteur de The Great Fire
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Jim Murphy, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Jim Murphy has written more than twenty-five books for young people. In addition to the Newbery Honor, which he received for The Great Fire, he has won many other awards, including the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor. He is also the two-time winner of afficher plus both the SCBWI Golden Kite Award and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Mr. Murphy lives with his family in Maplewood, New Jersey afficher moins
Œuvres de Jim Murphy
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (2003) 1,251 exemplaires
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883 (1998) 1,205 exemplaires
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863 (1998) 1,090 exemplaires
My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1881 (2001) 553 exemplaires
The Journal of Brian Doyle: A Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874 (2004) 109 exemplaires
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever (2015) 100 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 1980 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Murphy, James John Patrick
- Date de naissance
- 1947
- Date de décès
- 2022-05-01
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Woodstock, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Kearny, New Jersey, USA
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA - Études
- Rutgers University (Bx | English)
Radcliffe College - Professions
- children's book editor
managing editor
writer - Relations
- Blank, Alison (wife)
- Prix et distinctions
- Margaret A. Edwards Award, American Library Association (2010)
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Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 41
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 10,411
- Popularité
- #2,280
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 281
- ISBN
- 227
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 1
Apparently, drawings were heavily used in the newspapers at the time - I didn't know that. Interesting that there were photos of the Blizzard too.
Of course, forecasting was in its infancy & the weatherman of the day were looking at a scientific approach, where the farmers and seamen would have been a whole lot more knowledgeable, if the forecasters would have listened.