Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1927–2014)
Autor(a) de The Egypt Game
About the Author
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 mais 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
Séries
Obras de Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Half Magic / Five Children and It / The Egypt Game 1 exemplar(es)
1967 1ST EGYPT GAME ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET ZILPHA K. SNYDER NEWBERRY PRIZE GIFT [Hardcover] ZILPHA KEATLEY SNYDER 1 exemplar(es)
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2009-07-07) 1 exemplar(es)
The Phantom Tollbooth / The Egypt Game / Half Magic 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Dragons & Dreams: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories (1986) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
Treasure Island Trek; Children's Author & Illustrator Festival Saturday Oct, 18, 1969 — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-05-11
- Data de falecimento
- 2014-10-07
- Local de enterro
- Pierce Brothers Santa Paula Cemetery, Santa Paula, California, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Lemoore, California, USA
- Local de falecimento
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Causa da morte
- complications from a stroke
- Locais de residência
- Ventura, California, USA
Sonoma County, California, USA
New York City, New York, USA
Marin County, California, USA - Educação
- Whittier College (BA | 1948)
- Ocupação
- teacher
young adult writer
children's book author - Premiações
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1970)
Newbery Honor (1968, 1972, 1973)
Membros
Discussions
YA Fiction - boy rubs potion on shoulders & grows wings em Name that Book (Março 2012)
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1960s (5)
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Books with Twins (4)
Witchy Fiction (1)
Elevenses (2)
Elementary Reads (1)
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