Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1927–2014)
Autor de The Egypt Game
Sobre El Autor
Zilpha Keatley Snyder was born in Lemoore, California on May 11, 1927. She received a B.A. from Whittier College in 1948. While ultimately planning to be a writer, after graduation she decided to teach school temporarily. However, she found teaching to be an extremely rewarding experience and mostrar más taught in the upper elementary grades for a total of nine years. After all of her children were in school, she began to think of writing again. Her first book, Season of Ponies, was published in 1964. She wrote more than 40 books during her lifetime including The Trespassers, Gib Rides Home, Gib and the Gray Ghost, and William's Midsummer Dreams. She has won numerous awards including three Newbery Honor books for The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm and the 1995 John and Patricia Beatty Award for Cat Running. She died of complications from a stroke on October 08, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1927-05-11
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2014-10-07
- Lugar de sepultura
- Pierce Brothers Santa Paula Cemetery, Santa Paula, California, USA
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Lemoore, California, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- complications from a stroke
- Lugares de residencia
- Ventura, California, USA
Sonoma County, California, USA
New York City, New York, USA
Marin County, California, USA - Educación
- Whittier College (BA | 1948)
- Ocupaciones
- teacher
young adult writer
children's book author - Premios y honores
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1970)
Newbery Honor (1968, 1972, 1973)
Miembros
Debates
YA Fiction - boy rubs potion on shoulders & grows wings en Name that Book (marzo 2012)
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Five star books (1)
Tagged Runaways (1)
1990s (1)
Girl Detectives (1)
Female Author (1)
Best Dog Stories (1)
Ghosts (1)
1980s (1)
Cats in Fiction (1)
1970s (4)
Newbery Adjacent (4)
Books with Twins (4)
1960s (5)
Elevenses (2)
Elementary Reads (1)
Witchy Fiction (1)
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- Obras
- 52
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 13,213
- Popularidad
- #1,769
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 256
- ISBNs
- 397
- Idiomas
- 8
- Favorito
- 31