Allan W. Eckert (1931–2011)
Auteur van Incident at Hawk's Hill
Over de Auteur
Allan W. Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York on January 30, 1931. He served in the United States Air Force and attended the University of Dayton and Ohio State University. He was a historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright. He wrote over 40 books during his lifetime toon meer including A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood, Wild Season, The Silent Sky, The Frontiersmen, Wilderness Empire, The Conquerors, and A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, which were all nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. He received the Newbery Honor Book Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill. He also wrote almost all of the scripts for television's Wild Kingdom and adapted The Frontiersmen into the play Tecumseh! He died of prostate cancer on July 7, 2011 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Allan W. Eckert
The Frontiersman, Wilderness Empire, The Conquerors, Wilderness War, Gateway To Empire, Twilight Of Empire [six volume… (1967) 3 exemplaren
Narratives of America, Books I, II, & III: The Frontiersmen, Wilderness Empire, & The Conquerers. (1980) 1 exemplaar
That Dark and Bloody River : 1 exemplaar
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The Tower of Babel, The Crossbreed, The Wooden Horse, Swans and Turtles, Christy (1969) 2 exemplaren
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- Officiële naam
- Eckert, Allan Wesley
- Geboortedatum
- 1931-01-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2011-07-07
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Corona, California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA - Opleiding
- University of Dayton
Ohio State University - Beroepen
- historian
playwright
children's book author
novelist - Organisaties
- United States Air Force
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I won’t say more in case someone actually wants to read this. If you have a deep interest in animals, or ever daydreamed (like I did as a kid) about being able to fly like a bird, run as fast as a horse, walk quietly in the night as a cat seeing everything clearly . . . this book will become an instant favorite. There was so much love of nature woven into the story, and fantastic details about how wild animals live their lives, even new things the boy discovered about them (but then couldn’t tell anybody how he’d learned it). This is the greatest by Eckert I’ve read so far- even tops Incident at Hawk’s Hill, which has always been steadfastly among the best books ever, in my mind.… (meer)