Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors - Couverture souple

Cotter, Charis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1554511917 ISBN 13 : 9781554511914

Editeur : Annick Press Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Our childhood experiences shape us into the adults we become. Born to Write tells the stories of how six extraordinary children transformed early struggles into spellbinding bedtime reading for kids around the world. To ease the pain of being ostracized by her classmates, Madeleine L'Engle escaped to an invented world every night in her bedroom. Lucy Maud Montgomery lost her mother as a baby and her father appeared only sporadically throughout her life. And Philip Pullman, a seasoned traveler by age 10, used his long journeys by ship as inspiration for his remarkable novels. In Born to Write, Charis Cotter chronicles the early lives of these and other much-loved children's writers, including Christopher Paul Curtis, C.S. Lewis and E.B.White, revealing how each author's achievements and losses, triumphs and tragedies, helped shape our most beloved books. Interspersed throughout are sidebars highlighting other well-known children's authors, such as Hans Christian Andersen and Louisa May Alcott, whose works served as inspiration.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Annick Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1554511917
• ISBN 13: 9781554511914
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Fernandes Eugenie
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible