Ruth Stiles Gannett
Autor de My Father's Dragon
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- Nombre legal
- Kahn, Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1923-08-12
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Trumansburg, New York, USA
- Educación
- Vassar College (BA|Chemistry|1944)
- Ocupaciones
- children's book author
- Relaciones
- Gannett, Ruth Chrisman (stepmother)
Kahn, Peter (spouse; art historian) - Biografía breve
- Ruth Stiles Gannett attended City and Country School in New York City, then graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1944. In 1948, she published her first novel for children, My Father's Dragon, which won the Newbery Medal. The book was illustrated by her stepmother, Ruth Chrisman Gannett, and the typography was designed by her husband Peter Kahn, with whom she had seven children. She wrote two more novels in the series, Elmer and the Dragon (1950) and The Dragons of Blueland (1951), among other books.
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CHILDRENS, boy flies to mountains, impassable desert, dragons or dinosaurs en Name that Book (marzo 2014)
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I also really enjoy the fact that even though Elmer is just a little boy to us, he's also the narrator's father, which makes the telling of the story more affectionate than the usual third-person narration.… (más)