Born to write : the remarkable lives of six famous authors / Charis Cotter.
Material type: TextPublication details: Toronto ; New York : Annick Press, 2009.Description: 167 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cmISBN:- 1554511917 (pbk.)
- 1554511925 (bound)
- 9781554511914 (pbk.)
- 9781554511921 (bound)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 809 C847 | Available | 33111005700972 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Our childhood experiences shape us into the adults we become. Born to Write tells the stories of how six extraordinary children transformed early struggles into spellbinding bedtime reading for kids around the world.
To ease the pain of being ostracized by her classmates, Madeleine L'Engle escaped to an invented world every night in her bedroom. Lucy Maud Montgomery lost her mother as a baby and her father appeared only sporadically throughout her life. And Philip Pullman, a seasoned traveler by age 10, used his long journeys by ship as inspiration for his remarkable novels.
In Born to Write, Charis Cotter chronicles the early lives of these and other much-loved children's writers, including Christopher Paul Curtis, C.S. Lewis and E.B.White, revealing how each author's achievements and losses, triumphs and tragedies, helped shape our most beloved books. Interspersed throughout are sidebars highlighting other well-known children's authors, such as Hans Christian Andersen and Louisa May Alcott, whose works served as inspiration.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Echoes of childhood -- The thin veil: Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) -- Sea and Islands: Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) -- The glory of everything: Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985) -- The outcast: Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) -- Spinning stories: Philip Pullman (1946- ) -- The boy in the library: Christopher Paul Curtis (1953- ).