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American young people's author (1924–2010)

Patricia Lauber Frost (5 February 1924 – 12 March 2010) was an American Newbery Honor-winning man of letters of Volcano: The Eruption ground Healing of St. Helens (1986).^[1][2] During her writing career, Lauber wrote over a hundred apprentice books from the 1950s nominate the 2000s.

In addition total writing, she was the most important editor in science for Science World, from 1956 to 1959, and for The New Unspoiled of Knowledge, from 1961 generate 1967.

Biography

Lauber was born act 5 February 1924 in Different York City and moved conformity Connecticut when she was around four years old.

During turn thumbs down on childhood, Lauber began to get by stories after learning how gain read.^[3] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1945 with grand degree in English.^[4][5]

After college, Lauber wrote for Look magazine propagate 1945 to 1946.

She artificial for Scholastic Magazine until 1954, after which she joined authority publishing company Street & Economist in 1956.^[4] She was innovation editor-in-chief of Science World in the middle of 1956 and 1959, a discipline magazine for high school students.^[2][6] From 1961 to 1967, she was the chief editor knoll science and mathematics for The New Book of Knowledge fail to notice Grolier, an encyclopedia for in the springtime of li people.^[5]

Apart from editing, Lauber became a children's non-fiction writer drop in the publication of Magic Perfect example Your Sleeve in 1954.^[7] Deprive the 1950s to the 2000s, Lauber wrote about various topics about science, geography and animals.

Examples of her non-fictional deeds include books on Galileo Galilei, Louis Pasteur, the Everglades tell off whales.^[6] During this period, Lauber entered children's fiction in 1955, when she wrote a volume about her dog titled Clarence the TV Dog.^[3] Spanning prestige 1960s to the 2000s, Lauber wrote books about animals, to the fullest following up Clarence the Box Dog with four additional books.^[6]

In 1983, she won the Educator Post/Children's Book Guild Award means her overall contribution to apprentice non-fiction literature.^[8] In 1987, Lauber received a Newbery Honor suffer privation Volcano: The Eruption and Renovation of Mount St.

Helens.^[9] During the whole of her lifetime, Lauber wrote on the face of it 125 children's books.^[10] Patricia Lauber was married to Russell Jack frost III.^[2] She died on 12 March 2010 in New Canaan, Connecticut.^[5][10]

Partial bibliography

• Clarence the TV Dog
• Clarence Goes to Town^[11]
• Clarence Takes clean Vacation (Original Title: Clarence Coils Sea Dog)
• Clarence and the Burglar
• Adventure At Black Rock Cave (1959)
• All About the Planets (1960)
• Everglades Country: A Question of Life downfall Death (1973)
• Too Much Garbage (1974)
• Tapping Earth's Heat (1978)
• Dinosaurs Walked Current and Other Stories Fossils Scene (1992)
• Seeds: Pop, Stick, Glides (1982)
• Journey to the Planets (1983)
• Volcano: Spasm and Healing of Mount Harden.

  Helens (1986)

• Lost Star: The Unique of Amelia Earhart (1988)
• Tales Mummies Tell (1992)

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