Marion Dane Bauer
Autor(a) de On My Honor
About the Author
Marion Dane Bauer was born in Oglesby, Illinois. She attended community college first, in her home town, and then went to the University of Missouri when she was a junior to study journalism. She quickly realized that journalism was not for her and changed her focus to the humanities and a degree mostrar mais in English literature. She switched one last time to focus on teaching english, which she did when she graduated college. After her children were born, Bauer decided to try her hand at writing. She started out with a children's picture book, but discovered that youg adult novels were more to her taste. After making a career out of writing, Bauer became the first Faculty Chair at Vermont College for the only Master of Fine Arts in Writing program devoted exclusively to writing for children and young adults. Bauer is the author of more than forty books for young people. She has won many awards, including a Jane Addams Peace Association Award for her novel Rain of Fire and an American Library Association Newbery Honor Award for On My Honor and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work. Her picture book My Mother is Mine was a New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras de Marion Dane Bauer
Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota, New Yeovil,… (2003) 361 cópias
Wonders of America Ready-to-Read Value Pack: The Grand Canyon; Niagara Falls; The Rocky Mountains; Mount Rushmore; The… (2014) 30 cópias
Celebrating Virginia and Washington, D.C.: 50 States to Celebrate (Green Light Readers Level 3) (2013) 15 cópias
My First Biography Aberaham Lincoln 1 exemplar(es)
Wind by Marion Dane Bauer (2003-09-01) 1 exemplar(es)
Ruth 1 exemplar(es)
Little Dog Lost 1 exemplar(es)
Rainbow 1 exemplar(es)
Øre, nese og tå 1 exemplar(es)
Wonders Of America: The Grand Canyon 1 exemplar(es)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1 exemplar(es)
Bluf 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1938-11-20
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Oglesby, Illinois, USA
- Locais de residência
- Oglesby, Illinois, USA
- Educação
- University of Missouri (English)
University of Oklahoma - Ocupação
- high school English teacher
- Organizações
- Authors Guild
Authors League of America
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 127
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 15,912
- Popularidade
- #1,424
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 383
- ISBNs
- 621
- Idiomas
- 6
- Favorito
- 2
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