Albert Marrin (born July 24, 1936 in New York City ) is an American historian , professor of history, and author of more than forty juvenile nonfiction books.
He graduated from City College of New York , Yeshiva University , and Columbia University . He taught in the public schools New York City . He is Chairman of the history department at Yeshiva University .
He lives with his wife in the Bronx, New York.
2008 National Humanities Medal Carter G. Woodson Award Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award James Madison Book Award Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. The Church of England in the first world war , Columbia University., 1968Sir Norman Angell , Twayne Publishers, 1979, ISBN 978-0-8057-7725-3The airman's war: World War II in the sky , Atheneum, 1982, ISBN 978-0-689-30907-6Overlord: D-Day and the invasion of Europe , Atheneum, 1982, ISBN 978-0-689-30931-1Victory in the Pacific , Atheneum, 1983The sea rovers: pirates, privateers, and buccaneers , Atheneum, 1984, ISBN 978-0-689-31029-4War clouds in the West: Indians & cavalrymen, 1860-1890 , Atheneum, 1984, ISBN 978-0-689-31066-9The secret armies: spies, counterspies, and saboteurs in World War II , Atheneum, 1985, ISBN 978-0-689-31165-91812, the war nobody won , Atheneum, 1985, ISBN 978-0-689-31075-1Aztecs and Spaniards: Cortés and the conquest of Mexico , Atheneum, 1986, ISBN 978-0-689-31176-5The Yanks are coming: the United States in the first World War , Atheneum, 1986, ISBN 978-0-689-31209-0Hitler , Viking Kestrel, 1987, ISBN 978-0-670-81546-3Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, 1690-1760 , Atheneum, 1987, ISBN 978-0-689-31313-4The war for independence: the story of the American Revolution , Atheneum, 1988, ISBN 978-0-689-31390-5Inca & Spaniard: Pizarro and the conquest of Peru , Atheneum, 1989, ISBN 978-0-689-31481-0Mao Tse-tung and his China , Viking Kestrel, 1989, ISBN 978-0-670-82940-8The Spanish-American War , Atheneum, 1991, ISBN 978-0-689-31663-0America and Vietnam: the elephant and the tiger , Viking, 1992, ISBN 978-0-670-84063-2Stalin Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN 978-0-14-032605-5Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars , Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN 978-0-14-036479-8Cowboys, Indians, and gunfighters: the story of the cattle kingdom , Atheneum, 1993, ISBN 978-0-689-31774-3Virginia's general: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War , Atheneum, 1994, ISBN 978-0-689-31838-2Unconditional surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War , Atheneum, 1994, ISBN 978-0-689-31837-5The sea king: Sir Francis Drake and his times , Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995, ISBN 978-0-689-31887-0Plains warrior: Chief Quanah Parker and the Comanches , Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996, ISBN 978-0-689-80081-8Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War , Dutton Children's Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-525-45822-7Empires lost and won: the Spanish heritage in the Southwest , Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997, ISBN 978-0-689-80414-4Terror of the Spanish Main: Sir Henry Morgan and his buccaneers , Dutton Children's Books, 1999, ISBN 978-0-525-45942-2Sitting Bull and his world , Dutton Children's Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-525-45944-6George Washington and the founding of a nation , Dutton Children's Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0-525-46481-5Dr. Jenner and the speckled monster: the search for the smallpox vaccine , Dutton Children's Books, 2002, ISBN 978-0-525-46922-3Secrets from the rocks: dinosaur hunting with Roy Chapman Andrews , Illustrator Albert Marrin, Dutton Children's Books, 2002, ISBN 978-0-525-46743-4Old Hickory: Andrew Jackson and the American People , Dutton Children's Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-525-47293-3Oh, rats!: the story of rats and people , Illustrator C. B. Mordan, Dutton Children's Books, 2006, ISBN 978-0-525-47762-4Saving the buffalo , Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006, ISBN 978-0-439-71854-7The great adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the rise of modern America , Dutton Children's Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-525-47659-7Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and its Legacy , 2011Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives , 2012
