Name Russell Freedman | Role Biographer | |
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Education University of California, Berkeley Nominations Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Books Lincoln: A Photobiography, Freedom Walkers, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of, Kids at Work, Immigrant kids Similar People Laura Ingalls Wilder, John Newbery, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Franklin D Roosevelt | ||
War to end all wars by russell freedman
Russell A. Freedman (born October 11, 1929 in San Francisco) is an American biographer and the author of nearly 50 books for young people. He may be known best for winning the 1988 Newbery Medal with his work Lincoln: A Photobiography.
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- War to end all wars by russell freedman
- Russell freedman newbery author of lincoln a photobiography talks with interviewer tim podell
- Biography
- Selected works
- Awards
- Books
- References
Russell freedman newbery author of lincoln a photobiography talks with interviewer tim podell
Biography
Books were an important part of Freedman's life. His father worked for a company, and his mother worked in a bookstore.
He attended college first at San Jose State University and then University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with a degree in English Literature. After college, Freedman was drafted into the armed forces and served in the Korean War, for the United States. He now has family living in Alabama, where his sister's family settled to in 1978.
Later, Freedman worked as a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in San Francisco until the mid-1950s, when he took an advertising job in Manhattan. It was during this time that Freedman wrote his first novel after reading an article about a blind teenage boy who invented a Braille typewriter. The book, Teenagers Who Made History, was published in 1961. After its publication, Freedman quit his job and became a full-time writer.
As a writer of children's nonfiction, Freedman is often noted for his thorough research, and was praised for his "meticulous integration of words and images"
Freedman currently lives in New York City.
Selected works
Awards
In 1998 Freedman received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the professional children's librarians, which recognizes a living author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made "a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children". At the time it was awarded every three years.
He received one of the 2007 National Humanities Medals.
Books
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Indian Chiefs
Kids At Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
An Indian Winter
Children of the Wild West
Buffalo Hunt
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
Immigrant Kids
Getting Born