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Awards Sibert Medal, National Book Award for Children's Books (Nonfiction), Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction Nominations Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Books The Life and Death of Adolf H, When Plague Strikes, Good brother - bad brother, The Riddle of the Rosetta S, The Amazing Life of Be Similar Eileen Christelow, Bagram Ibatoulline, Sue Alexander, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Jefferson | ||
James Cross Giblin (July 8, 1933 – April 10, 2016) was an American children's author and editor. He won a Golden Kite Award.
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Life
Giblin was born on July 8, 1933, in Cleveland, and was raised in Painesville, OH. He graduated from Western Reserve University with a BA in drama, and went on to receive a master's in playwriting from Columbia University. After a brief period as an actor, he went to work in publishing, first for Criterion Books, later for Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; and Seabury Press. While at Seabury he founded a children's imprint, Clarion Books, which was later acquired by Houghton Mifflin. At Clarion he edited such notable children's book authors as Eileen Christelow, the author and illustrator of the "Five Little Monkeys" series; and Mary Downing Hahn, who wrote ghost stories for middle graders.