Alf Evers, the author and Woodstock historian, died Wednesday at his home, shortly after completing a final draft of his 700-page history of Kingston. He was 99.Evers lived in the Woodstock hamlet of Shady for more than 50 years. He wrote some 50 children's books with his late ex-wife, Helen, but is best known for his voluminous, definitive and beloved histories of the Catskills and Woodstock.
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Bernarda Bryson Shahn Dies at 101
Shahn, the wife of Ben Shahn wrote and illustrated children's books, which included The Zoo of Zeus and Gilgamesh.
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Francess Lantz, who wrote the "Luna Bay" surfer girl series and other fiction aimed at teen and preteen girls, died at her home in Santa Barbara on Nov. 22 after a five-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 52.
C. Walter Hodges, illustrator, author and expert on Shakespeare, was born on March 18, 1909. He died on November 26, 2004, aged 95.
... The adventure story Columbus Sails (1939) was a success with children on both sides of the Atlantic...... in 1964 won the Kate Greenaway Medal for his colourful Shakespeare?s Theatre. It has been said that he was the most distinguished children?s writer not to have been awarded the Carnegie Medal...
Hodges wrote, for Twentieth Century Children's Writers: Those who are nowadays called Children's Writers (and their illustrators) are adults, engaged as adults in highly-skilled, creative, imaginative work; and children in their own imaginations are as near adult as need be for an intelligent readership. Many of the books that most attracted me and my friends when I was young were not specifically written as 'children's books'; therefore today, though I write mostly for children, I do not bother extremely to make my books only suitable for their age. I like to make them also suitable for me at mine."
Miriam Schlein, children's author
Miriam Schlein, author obit.:
Miriam Schlein, whose nearly 100 books, written over half a century, taught young children about animals, time and space, died Nov. 23 in New York. She was 78 and lived in Manhattan... ...
Miriam Schlein, whose nearly 100 books, written over half a century, taught young children about animals, time and space, died Nov. 23 in New York. She was 78 and lived in Manhattan.
