Esther Forbes

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Esther Louise Forbes (born June 28, 1891 in Westborough , Massachusetts , † August 12, 1967 in Worcester , Massachusetts) was an American writer .

Life

Forbes was trained at Bradford Junior Academy and then began studying at the University of Wisconsin . There was Breakneck Hill , her first short story published in the Grinnell Review . Because of the First World War , she broke off her studies to work as a farm helper. After the war she started working at Houghton Mifflin . In 1926 she published her first novel O, genteel lady! which was positively received by the critics. In the same year she married Albert Learned Hoskins and decided to make writing her main job. Albert was divorced in 1933 and she moved back to Worcester. Several books followed until she won the Pulitzer Prize in the history category with Paul Revere and the world he lived in (1942) and became known nationwide.

She used the research for this biography to write a children's book about a silversmith's assistant at the beginning of the American Revolution. Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Young and Old , published in 1943, was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1944 , one of the most prestigious American children's book prizes, and is still one of the classics of American youth literature. In 1949 Forbes was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works (selection)

  • O genteel lady! 1926 (German Wolves in Paradise ).
  • The general's lady. 1938 (German Die Generalin ).
  • Paul Revere and the world he lived in. 1942.
  • Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Young and Old. 1943.
  • The running of the tide. 1948 (German In the current of the tides ).
  • Rainbow on the road. 1954 (German Am Wegesrand der Regenbogen ).

literature

  • Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green (Eds.): Notable American women: the modern period . tape 4 . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980, ISBN 0-674-62732-6 , pp. 246 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e biography ( memento of March 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the Archives & Special Collections pages of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  2. ↑ a b biography on Bookrags.com
  3. ↑ Prize winner in the history category
  4. ↑ List of the award winners
personal data
SURNAME Forbes, Esther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forbes, Esther Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Westborough , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1967
Place of death Worcester , Massachusetts