Esther Forbes was an American novelist and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the fifth of six children born to Harriette Merrifield and William Trowbridge Forbes. After attending school in Wisconsin, Forbes served as a member of the editorial staff at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston.

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  • Esther Forbes was an American novelist and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the fifth of six children born to Harriette Merrifield and William Trowbridge Forbes. After attending school in Wisconsin, Forbes served as a member of the editorial staff at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. Her first novel, Oh Genteel Lady!, was published in 1926 and was made a selection by the then newly formed Book-of-the-Month Club. She married Albert Hoskins in 1926. They were divorced in 1933. By 1938 Forbes had published a number of books, and first received critical and public acclaim for her novel, A Mirror for Witches, which was produced in several other formats (e.g. , theatrical) and has never been out of print. Forbes' 1942 biography Paul Revere and the World He Lived In put her even more firmly in the spotlight and subsequently brought her the Pulitzer Prize for History. Her novel Johnny Tremain (1943), about the life of a young apprentice in Boston in the early 1770s, won the 1944 Newbery Medal and remains one of the most highly acclaimed books for young adults. Forbes died in 1967, at age 76.
  • Esther Forbes escritora estadounidense. Fue autora de Paul Revere and the World He Lived In galardonado con el premio Pulitzer de historia en 1943, y de Johnny Tremain, novela juvenil, medalla Newbery en 1944. Fue también una apreciada colaboradora de la Enciclopedia Británica.
  • Esther Forbes est un écrivain américain qui fut l'auteur de Paul Revere and the World He Lived In qui sera récompensé du prix Pulitzer d'histoire en 1943, et de Johnny Tremain, un roman pour la jeunesse qui remporta la médaille Newbery en 1944. Elle fut aussi une collaboratrice appréciée de l'Encyclopédie Britannica.
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  • Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, note 54.
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  • Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the de-bunked remains.
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  • Esther Forbes was an American novelist and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the fifth of six children born to Harriette Merrifield and William Trowbridge Forbes. After attending school in Wisconsin, Forbes served as a member of the editorial staff at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston.
  • Esther Forbes escritora estadounidense. Fue autora de Paul Revere and the World He Lived In galardonado con el premio Pulitzer de historia en 1943, y de Johnny Tremain, novela juvenil, medalla Newbery en 1944. Fue también una apreciada colaboradora de la Enciclopedia Británica.
  • Esther Forbes est un écrivain américain qui fut l'auteur de Paul Revere and the World He Lived In qui sera récompensé du prix Pulitzer d'histoire en 1943, et de Johnny Tremain, un roman pour la jeunesse qui remporta la médaille Newbery en 1944. Elle fut aussi une collaboratrice appréciée de l'Encyclopédie Britannica.
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  • Esther Forbes
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