Bruce Clements

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Bruce Clements (born November 25, 1931 in New York City ) is an American author of books for children and young people .

Life

Bruce Clements was the son of Representative Paul Eugene and editor Ruth Clements.

He studied at Columbia University , Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and received his MA in 1962 from the State University of New York at Albany . Clements was ordained in the United Church of Christ and worked from 1957 to 1964 as a pastor in Schenectady and there from 1964 to 1967 as an instructor at Union College . Clements became Professor of English and American Children's and Youth Literature at Eastern Connecticut State University in 1967 . He was also a mediator. As a writer, he has written more than ten books for young people.

Clements married Hanna Charlotte Margarete Kiep (born 1933) in 1954. You have presented biographical works on the German diplomat and resistance fighter Otto Kiep - Hanna Clements' father - who was hanged in 1944 as a member of the Solf Circle .

You live in Windham, Connecticut and have four children.

Works

which are available in German translation:

  • Prison Window, Jerusalem Blue . English: An amulet made of blue glass . From the American. by Marion Balkenhol. Nagel and Kimche, Zurich / Frauenfeld 1992, ISBN 3-312-00755-0 .
  • Two Against the Tide . English: fighting the tides . Translated by Cornelia Krutz-Arnold. Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt am Main / Salzburg 1992, ISBN 3-7941-3537-7 .
  • Tom loves Anna loves Tom . German. Tom loves Anna loves Tom : Dt. by Cornelia Krutz-Arnold: Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt am Main / Salzburg 1993, ISBN 3-7941-3608-X .
  • Tell a Lie Every So Often . German: Every now and then I lie: an adventurous trip through Missouri . From the American. by Fred Schmitz. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-407-78151-2 .
  • Sugar for the lions . German by Cornelia Krutz-Arnold. Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt am Main / Salzburg 1994, ISBN 3-7941-3723-X .

together with Hanna Clements:

  • Coming Home to a Place You've Never Been Before . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-31530-2 .

Works about Otto Kiep

  • From Ice Set Free: The Story of Otto Kiep . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972, ISBN 0-374-32468-9 .
  • Hildegard Rauch, Hanna Clements (ed.): OC Kiep. My path in life 1886–1944: Notes while in custody. H. Rauch, Munich 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Clements , at encyclopedia.com (2007)
  2. ↑ Faith Middleton, Lori Mack & Jonathan McNicol: Bruce Clements: Questions You Should Never Ask , on Connecticut Public Radio , March 31, 2014
  3. ↑ Literature by and about Hanna Clements in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Clements, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City