James Lincoln Collier
Autor de My Brother Sam is Dead
Sobre El Autor
James Lincoln Collier was born in 1928. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1950 and served in the infantry during the Korean War. After college, Collier worked first for six years as a magazine editor, writing in his spare time. In 1958, he quit to work free-lance, and has since then published mostrar más over six hundred magazine articles for periodicals such as, Playboy, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine and the Village Voice. Collier has also published a half dozen books for adults, the most recent being The Making of Jazz, which was nominated for an American Book Award, was named to the London Observer's Books of the Year List for 1979, and has been published in English, French, German, and Russian editions. Collier also published twenty-three children's books, five in collaboration with his brother, Christopher Collier. These have been published in seven languages, and have won the Child Study Association Book Award, a Newbery Honor Medal, a Jane Addams Peace Prize, and a National Book Award nomination. Many of them have appeared on the ALA Notable Book List, and others on the New York Public Library's recommended book list. Collier is also a professional trombonist, and writes fiction and nonfiction on the subject of music. His book, Rock Star, won an award from the Child Study Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College. My Brother Sam Is Dead was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975 and was designated a Notable Book by the American Library Association as well as being nominated for a National Book Award in 1975. Jump Ship to Freedom was named a Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies in 1981 by a joint committee of the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children's Book Council. War Comes to Willy Freeman is a companion book to the novel. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de James Lincoln Collier
Jamestown's American Portraits: Corn Raid: A Story of the Jamestown Settlement (Jamestown's American… (2000) 53 copias
The Jeffersonian Republicans: The Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812 : 1800-1823 (Drama of American History) (1999) 24 copias
The United States Enters the World Stage: From Alaska Purchase Through World War I, 1867-1919 (Drama of American… (1991) 12 copias
Jug bands and handmade music: A creative approach to music theory and the instruments (A Thistle book) (1973) 6 copias
THE MAKING OF MAN The Story of Our Ancient Ancestors by James Lincoln Collier (1974 Hardcover 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, 146… (1974) 4 copias
Danny goes to the hospital 2 copias
The steam engine 1 copia
Dem Menschen auf der Spur 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Brother Sam & All That: Historical Context and Literary Analysis of the Novels of James and Christopher Collier (1999) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1928-06-27
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York City, New York, USA
- Educación
- Hamilton College (1950)
- Ocupaciones
- jazz musician
journalist - Relaciones
- Collier, Edmund (father)
Collier, Christopher (brother)
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- ISBNs
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