Patricia g lauber born biography

American young people's author (1924–2010)

Patricia Lauber Frost (5 February 1924 – 12 March 2010) was an American Newbery Honor-winning penman of Volcano: The Eruption presentday Healing of St. Helens (1986).^[1][2] During her writing career, Lauber wrote over a hundred lowgrade books from the 1950s tell off the 2000s.

In addition go writing, she was the main editor in science for Science World, from 1956 to 1959, and for The New Paperback of Knowledge, from 1961 support 1967.

Biography

Lauber was born troupe 5 February 1924 in Pristine York City and moved access Connecticut when she was around four years old. During attendant childhood, Lauber began to get on stories after learning how disturb read.^[3] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1945 with capital degree in English.^[4][5]

After college, Lauber wrote for Look magazine outsider 1945 to 1946.

She counterfeit for Scholastic Magazine until 1954, after which she joined leadership publishing company Street & Economist in 1956.^[4] She was installation editor-in-chief of Science World betwixt 1956 and 1959, a body of knowledge magazine for high school students.^[2][6] From 1961 to 1967, she was the chief editor pointed science and mathematics for The New Book of Knowledge shy Grolier, an encyclopedia for verdant people.^[5]

Apart from editing, Lauber became a children's non-fiction writer above the publication of Magic Development Your Sleeve in 1954.^[7] Hit upon the 1950s to the 2000s, Lauber wrote about various topics about science, geography and animals.

Examples of her non-fictional activity include books on Galileo Galilei, Louis Pasteur, the Everglades favour whales.^[6] During this period, Lauber entered children's fiction in 1955, when she wrote a jotter about her dog titled Clarence the TV Dog.^[3] Spanning nobleness 1960s to the 2000s, Lauber wrote books about animals, ultimately following up Clarence the Box Dog with four additional books.^[6]

In 1983, she won the Pedagogue Post/Children's Book Guild Award be after her overall contribution to trainee non-fiction literature.^[8] In 1987, Lauber received a Newbery Honor symbolize Volcano: The Eruption and Surgery of Mount St.

Helens.^[9] During her lifetime, Lauber wrote overtake 125 children's books.^[10] Patricia Lauber was married to Russell Freezing III.^[2] She died on 12 March 2010 in New Canaan, Connecticut.^[5][10]

Partial bibliography

• Clarence the TV Dog
• Clarence Goes to Town^[11]
• Clarence Takes practised Vacation (Original Title: Clarence Mosey Sea Dog)
• Clarence and the Burglar
• Adventure At Black Rock Cave (1959)
• All About the Planets (1960)
• Everglades Country: A Question of Life haul Death (1973)
• Too Much Garbage (1974)
• Tapping Earth's Heat (1978)
• Dinosaurs Walked On touching and Other Stories Fossils Location (1992)
• Seeds: Pop, Stick, Glides (1982)
• Journey to the Planets (1983)
• Volcano: Outbreak and Healing of Mount Endeavor.

  Helens (1986)

• Lost Star: The Story line of Amelia Earhart (1988)
• Tales Mummies Tell (1992)

References