Walter D. Edmonds

Walter D. Edmonds

human

Ein sex anaa gender	male
Ein country of citizenship	United States
Name wey dem give am	Walter
Family name	Edmonds
Ein date of birth	15 July 1903
Place dem born am	Boonville
Date wey edie	24 January 1998
Place wey edie	Concord
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign	English
Ein occupation	writer, novelist, children's writer
Educate for	Harvard University, Choate Rosemary Hall
Award e receive	Newbery Medal
Represented by	Harold Ober Associates

Walter "Wat" Dumaux Edmonds (July 15, 1903 – January 24, 1998) na he be American writer best known for historical novels. One of dem, Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), na dem adapt as a Technicolor feature film insyd 1939, John Ford direct den star Henry Fonda den Claudette Colbert.

Life

Na dem born Edmonds insyd Boonville, New York. Insyd 1919 he enter The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) insyd Wallingford, Connecticut. Originally na he dey intend make he study chemical engineering, he cam turn more interested insyd writing den work as managing editor of de Choate ‘’Literary Magazine‘’. He graduate insyd 1926 from Harvard, wer he edit ‘’The Harvard Advocate‘’, wey wer he study plus Charles Townsend Copeland. He marry Eleanor Stetson insyd 1930.

Insyd 1929, he publish ein first novel, ‘’Rome Haul‘’, a work about de Erie Canal. Na dem adapt de novel for de 1934 play ‘’The Farmer Takes a Wife‘’ den de 1935 film of de same name.

Na ‘’Drums Along the Mohawk‘’ dey for de bestseller list top for two years, second only to Margaret Mitchell ein famous 1936 novel ‘’Gone with the Wind‘’ for part of dat time. Edmonds dey justify ein approach to historical accuracy insyd de preface:

A novelist has, if he chooses, a greater opportunity for the faithful presentation of a bygone time than an historian; for the historian is compelled to a presentation of cause and effect, and feels, as a rule, that he must present them through the lives and characters of ‘famous’ or ‘historical’ figures. My concern, however, has been with life as it was, as you or I, our mothers or wives, our brothers and husbands and uncles might have experienced it.

Edmonds eventually publish 34 books, chaw give kiddies, as well as a number of magazine stories. He win de Lewis Carroll Shelf Award insyd 1960 den de Newbery Medal insyd 1942, for ‘’The Matchlock Gun‘’, den de National Book Award for Young People's Literature insyd 1976, for ‘’Bert Breen's Barn‘’.

Wen Eleanor die insyd 1956, Walter marry Katherine Howe Baker Carr, wey die insyd 1989. Walter Edmonds die insyd Concord, Massachusetts, insyd 1998.

Work

Novels

• Rome Haul (1929) *
• The Big Barn (1930)
• Erie Water (1933)
• Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) *
• Chad Hanna (1940) *
• Young Ames (1942) *
• The Wedding Journey (1947)
• The Boyds of Black River (1953)
• Wolf Hunt (1970)

Juvenile novels

• The Matchlock Gun (1941)
• Tom Whipple (1942)
• Two Logs Crossing: John Haskell's Story (1943)
• Cadmus Henry (1949)
• Time to Go House (1969)
• Bert Breen's Barn (1975)

Autobiographical novel

• The South African Quirt (1985)

Short story collections

• Mostly Canallers (1934) *
• In the Hands of the Senecas (1947)
• Seven American Stories (1970)
• The Night Raider and Other Stories (1980)

Non-fiction

• They Fought with What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942 (1951)
• The Musket and the Cross: The Struggle of France and England for North America (1968)
• Tales My Father Never Told (1995)

* Novels Rome Haul, Drums Along the Mohawk, Chad Hanna, Young Ames den de short story collection Mostly Canallers na dem publish as Armed Services Editions during WWII.

Read further

• Oliver, Myrna (January 28, 1998). "Walter D. Edmonds; Author of 'Drums Along the Mohawk'". The Los Angeles Times.

External links

• Choate Rosemary Hall obituary
• Remembrance from UticaOD.com
• Edmonds papers at Harvard
• Walter D. Edmonds at Library of Congress, with 61 library catalog records