William Corbin

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William Corbin McGraw (born January 22, 1916 in Des Moines , Iowa , † June 6, 1999 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American journalist, children's author and hazelnut farmer.

Life

After studying English literature at Drake University in Iowa and for a short time at Harvard University , he worked from 1939 as a journalist for the Athens Messenger in Ohio , the Plan Dealer in Cleveland , the Oklahoma City Times in Oklahoma and the Union Tribune in San Diego . In 1940 he married Eloise Jarvis McGraw, who later became a children's author, and moved with her to the Willamette Valley in the south of Portland. The two had two children. His wife began writing in 1949 in San Diego, where William Corbin McCraw was a news reporter at the time.

He himself wrote his first novel, Deadline , in 1952 , which resembled an educational novel for young adults, as it described the maturation process of 18-year-old Dan Logan, who began a career as a journalist with a small daily newspaper. To avoid confusion, he used his middle name as part of his pseudonym. He used his own journalistic background - albeit to a lesser extent - in his novel High Road Home † (1953), in which a former refugee and young reporter researches a nationwide search for a columnist .

More typical of him, however, were his later children's books, in which mostly everything revolved around dogs and horses. A case in point was Smoke (1967), in which the reconciliation between a boy and his stepfather is based on the two of them caring for a starving German Shepherd .

As a journalist and children's book author, he ironically noted in a review that male writers of his day were still caricaturing female librarians in return for their indirect censorship of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .

Eloise Jarvis McGraw outlived her husband by 18 months.

Works

  • Deadline . Coward-McCann, New York 1952.
  • High road home . Coward-McCann, New York 1954.
  • Golden mare . Illustrated by Pers Crowell. Coward-McCann, New York 1955.
  • Pony for keeps . Illustrated by Peter Burchard. Coward-McCann, New York 1958.
    • German edition: Tipsy, do you want to be my friend? A pony story . Translated by Sonda Heyer. Albert Müller Verlag, Rüschlikon / Stuttgart / Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-275-00495-6 .
  • Horse in the house . Illustrated by Sam Savitt. Coward-McCann, New York 1964.
    • German edition: A horse in the house . Translated by Ursula von Wiese . Albert Müller Verlag, Rüschlikon / Stuttgart / Vienna 1968.
  • Smoke . Coward-McCann, New York 1967.
    • German edition: Christoph and his dog . Translated by Marga Ruperti. Albert Müller Verlag, Rüschlikon / Stuttgart / Vienna 1969.
  • The everywhere cat . Illustrated by Consuelo Joerns. Coward-McCann, New York 1970.
  • The day Willie wasn't . Illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi. Coward McCann & Geoghegan, New York 1971.
  • The prettiest gargoyle . Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York 1971.
    • German edition: The riddle of Notre Dame . Translated by Marianne Pietsch. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-522-12080-9 .
  • The pup with the up-and-down tail . Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York 1972.
    • German edition: Supertex the super dog . Translated by Marianne Pietsch. Illustrated by Ruth von Hagen-Torn. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-522-12230-5 .
  • A dog worth stealing . Orchard Books, New York 1987, ISBN 0-531-05712-7 .
  • Me and the end of the world . Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York 1991, ISBN 0-671-74223-X .

Awards

literature

  • Something about the author. Facts and pictures about contemporary authors and illustrators of books for young people . Volume 3. Gale Research, Detroit 1972, pp. 124-125.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins (Ed.): Dictionary of American children's fiction, 1960-1984. Recent books of recognized merit. Greenwood, New York 1986, p. 132.
  2. ↑ Eloise and William McGraw papers, 1923-1991
  3. ^ William Corbin McGraw: Pollyanna Rides Again . In: Saturday Review, March 22, 1958, pp. 37f.
  4. ↑ Cf. Beverly Lyon Clark: Kiddie lit: the cultural construction of children's literature in America. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland 2005, p. 207.
  5. ↑ Elaine Wood: Obituaries: Eloise McGraw; Award-Winning Children's Author. In: Los Angeles Times . December 10, 2000. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  6. ↑ Review on Kirkus Reviews, September 8, 1952
  7. ↑ Linda Frederickson: A Century of Cooperation: The Pacific Northwest Library Association, 1909-2009. - YRCA Winners section .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: dead link / unllib.unl.edu  
personal data
SURNAME Corbin, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corbin McGraw, William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and children's author
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Des Moines , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1999
Place of death Portland , Oregon