Dorothy Sterling (1913–2008)
Auteur van Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
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Author Dorothy Sterling was born on November 23, 1913 in Manhattan. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1934. In the 1940's, she worked as a researcher for Life magazine, but left in frustration at a system under which women researchers gave material to men, who wrote the toon meer articles. Her first book, Sophie and Her Puppies, was published in 1951. She wrote more than 35 books for both children and adults throughout her lifetime including Freedom Train (1954), Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls (1958), Black Foremothers: Three Lives (1979) and Close to My Heart (2005). She won numerous awards for her work including the 1976 Carter G. Woodson Book Award for The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction. She died on December 1, 2008 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Dorothy Sterling
The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island (1967) 63 exemplaren
Lift Every Voice: The Lives of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell and James Weldon Johnson (1965) 22 exemplaren
Speak out in thunder tones : letters and other writings by Black northerners, 1787-1865 (1973) 20 exemplaren
Turning the World Upside Down: The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women Held in New York City, May 9-12, 1837 (1987) 15 exemplaren
Our Cape Cod Salt Marshes 3 exemplaren
Four Score and More By Dorothy Sterling 1 exemplaar
The Brownie Scout Mystery 1 exemplaar
The Story of Mosses, Ferns and Mushrooms 1 exemplaar
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- Sterling, Dorothy Dannenberg
- Geboortedatum
- 1913-11-23
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2008-12-01
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA (birth)
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA - Opleiding
- Dalton School
Wellesley College
Barnard College (1934) - Beroepen
- journalist
biographer - Relaties
- Sterling, Philip (husband)
- Organisaties
- Federal Writers' Project
Life Magazine
NAACP
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