Walter D. Edmonds

Walter "Wat" Dumaux Edmonds (July 15, 1903 – January 24, 1998) na he be American writer best known for historical novels. One of dem, Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), na dem adapt as a Technicolor feature film insyd 1939, John Ford direct den star Henry Fonda den Claudette Colbert.

 Life 
Na dem born Edmonds insyd Boonville, New York. Insyd 1919 he enter The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) insyd Wallingford, Connecticut. Originally na he dey intend make he study chemical engineering, he cam turn more interested insyd writing den work as managing editor of de Choate ‘’Literary Magazine‘’. He graduate insyd 1926 from Harvard, wer he edit ‘’The Harvard Advocate‘’, wey wer he study plus Charles Townsend Copeland.‘’Newbery Medal Books: 1922–1955’’, eds. Bertha Mahony Miller, Elinor Whitney Field, Horn Book, 1955, LCCN 55-13968, p. 210. He marry Eleanor Stetson insyd 1930.

Insyd 1929, he publish ein first novel, ‘’Rome Haul‘’, a work about de Erie Canal. Na dem adapt de novel for de 1934 play ‘’The Farmer Takes a Wife‘’ den de 1935 film of de same name.

Na ‘’Drums Along the Mohawk‘’ dey for de bestseller list top for two years, second only to Margaret Mitchell ein famous 1936 novel ‘’Gone with the Wind‘’ for part of dat time. Edmonds dey justify ein approach to historical accuracy insyd de preface:

Edmonds eventually publish 34 books, chaw give kiddies, as well as a number of magazine stories. He win de Lewis Carroll Shelf Award insyd 1960Award List. “Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Winners”, Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Collection, Living Arts Corporation, Loveland, Colorado. 

  Carlson, Laura, and Sean Creighton and Sheila Cunningham, eds. (1996). ‘’Literary laurels: a reader’s guide to award-winning children’s books’’. Hillyard. . pp. 25–34. den de Newbery Medal insyd 1942, for ‘’The Matchlock Gun‘’, den de National Book Award for Young People's Literature insyd 1976, for ‘’Bert Breen's Barn‘’.

Wen Eleanor die insyd 1956, Walter marry Katherine Howe Baker Carr, wey die insyd 1989. Walter Edmonds die insyd Concord, Massachusetts, insyd 1998.

 Work 

 Novels 

 Rome Haul (1929) *
 The Big Barn (1930)
 Erie Water (1933)
 Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) *
 Chad Hanna (1940) *
 Young Ames (1942) *
 The Wedding Journey (1947)
 The Boyds of Black River (1953)
 Wolf Hunt (1970)

 Juvenile novels 

 The Matchlock Gun (1941)
 Tom Whipple (1942)
 Two Logs Crossing: John Haskell's Story (1943)
 Cadmus Henry (1949)
 Time to Go House (1969)
 Bert Breen's Barn (1975)

 Autobiographical novel 

 The South African Quirt (1985)

 Short story collections 

 Mostly Canallers (1934) *
 In the Hands of the Senecas (1947)
 Seven American Stories (1970)
 The Night Raider and Other Stories (1980)

 Non-fiction 

 They Fought with What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942 (1951)
 The Musket and the Cross: The Struggle of France and England for North America (1968)
 Tales My Father Never Told (1995)

* Novels Rome Haul, Drums Along the Mohawk, Chad Hanna, Young Ames den de short story collection Mostly Canallers na dem publish as Armed Services Editions during WWII.

 References 

 Read further 

 External links 
 Choate Rosemary Hall obituary
 Remembrance from UticaOD.com
 Edmonds papers at Harvard
 Walter D. Edmonds at Library of Congress, with 61 library catalog records

Category:1903 births
Category:1998 deaths
Category:Human
Category:American children's writers
Category:American historical novelists
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:Newbery Medal winners
Category:National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners
Category:Novelists wey komot New York (state)
Category:Novelists wey komot Massachusetts
Category:Choate Rosemary Hall alumni
Category:People wey komot Boonville, New York
Category:American male novelists
Category:Harvard Advocate alumni
Category:20th-century American male writers