Zoa Sherburne
Zoa Morin Sherburne (born September 30, 1912 in Seattle , Washington , † October 5, 1995 there ) was an American writer .
Life
Zoa Sherburne was born in Seattle and grew up in Ballard . She started writing while she was at Whittier Elementary School . She later studied at Western Washington University and began writing her own column in The Gremlin's Say in the Ballard Tribune in the early 1940s . With the help of a Limerick competition held by a local radio station, she won US $ 205 , which she invested in teaching short stories. She wrote over 300 short stories over the next 15 years and began writing her first novel after her first children left home to go to college.
With Almost April 1956 her first book was published. Thirteen more novels, translated into 27 languages, were to follow. She only wrote novels for young people in which young girls had to cope with everyday problems. With Im Netz der Angst , her 1963 novel Stranger in the House was filmed as a television drama in 1982 . The film, directed by Sandor Stern and starring Barbara Babcock , Peter Billingsley and Gerald McRaney in the leading roles, tells the story of a mother who comes home after eight years in a psychiatric hospital.
Sherburne died on October 5, 1995 at the age of 83 of complications from a heart attack . She left eight children.
Works
- 1956: Almost April
- Soon it will be April . Franckh-Kosmos (1962), 168 pages
- 1957: The high white wall
- 1958: Princess in denim
- 1959: Jennifer
- 1963: Stranger in the House
- 1964: Ballerina on Skates
- 1965: River At Her Feet
- 1966: Girl in the Mirror
- Girl in the mirror . Salzer-Verlag Heilbronn (1969), 181 pages
- 1967: Too Bad about the Haines Girl
- Tomorrow we will decide: a story from our time . Salzer-Verlag Heilbronn (1968), 180 pages
- 1970: The Girl who Knew Tomorrow
- 1972: Leslie
- 1974: Why Have the Birds Stopped Singing?
Web links
- Zoa Sherburne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Zoa Sherburne, Children's Author , seattletimes.nwsource.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sherburne, Zoa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sherburne, Zoa Morin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 1995 |
| Place of death | Seattle , Washington |