Young Pioneers' Christmas, an American made-for-television movie, loosely based on the novel "Let the Hurricane Roar" authored by the daughter of what American writer?
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Young Pioneers' Christmas Young Pioneers' Christmas is an American made-for-television movie, a Christmas special of the 1976 season. It is loosely based on the novel "Let the Hurricane Roar" by Rose Wilder Lane. (Lane's 1933 novel had been reissued as "Young Pioneers" in 1976 and the latter title has remained in use.)
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Rose Wilder Lane Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, political theorist, and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane is noted as one of the founders of the American libertarian movement.
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Lois Lowry Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books. She has won two Newbery Medals, for "Number the Stars" in 1990 and "The Giver" in 1994. For her contribution as a children's writer, she was a finalist in 2000 and U.S. nominee again in 2004, as well as a finalist in 2016 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. Her book "Gooney Bird Greene" won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award.
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Mary Johnston Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 – May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.
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Anita Shreve Anita Shreve (born 1946) is an American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she graduated from Dedham High School in Massachusetts, attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher in Reading, Massachusetts. One of her first published stories, "Past the Island, Drifting", (published in 1975) was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976.
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Natalie Babbitt Natalie Zane Babbitt (née Moore; July 28, 1932 – October 31, 2016) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Her acclaimed 1975 novel "Tuck Everlasting" has been adapted into two feature films and a Broadway musical. She received the Newbery Honor and Christopher Award, and was the U.S. nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1982.
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Betty Lou Young Betty Lou Young (May 18, 1919 – July 1, 2010) was a United States writer and conservationist. Young was born in Minneapolis to Chester Haller, the owner of a lumber warehouse, and his wife Amy, who was a teacher. While Betty was still a baby, her parents separated, and her mother relocated in Long Beach. Betty received her undergraduate education at UCLA, and her masters at Smith College in 1942, at which point she met and married the doctor Thomas Young.
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Lurma Rackley Lurma M. Rackley (born April 24, 1949) is an American author, journalist and publicist. The daughter of a civil rights activist, she participated in civil rights demonstrations and was arrested 16 times before she was 13 years old. After college, she became a journalist and later, a publicist with the Washington, D.C. city government. In 1981, Petey Greene asked her to collaborate with him on his autobiography, recording audiotaped interviews with her shortly before his death. Rackley published her book about Greene in 2004.
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Caroline Lee Hentz Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (June 1, 1800, Lancaster, Massachusetts – February 11, 1856, Marianna, Florida) was an American novelist and author, most noted for her opposition to the abolitionist movement and her widely read "The Planter's Northern Bride", a rebuttal to Harriet Beecher Stowe's popular anti-slavery book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin". She was a major literary figure in her day, and helped advance women's fiction.
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Harriet Theresa Comstock Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860–1925) was an American novelist and author of children's books.
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Jean Fritz Jean Guttery Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14, 2017) was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history. She won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986. She turned 100 in November 2015.
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Grace Duffie Boylan Grace Duffie Boylan (February 9, 1861 - March 24, 1935) was an American writer. She wrote many children’s books, often dealing with diverse races and cultures, like "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (not to be confounded with the same title by Harriet Beecher Stowe). Other titles include: "Young Folks", "Our Little Eskimo Kiddies: Kids of Many Colors", "Yama Yama Land", and "Our Little Cuban Kiddies".
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Shirley Graham Du Bois Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American award-winning author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes. In later life she married the noted thinker, writer, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. The couple became citizens of Ghana in 1961 after they emigrated to that country. She won the Messner and the Anisfield-Wolf prizes for her works.
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Grace S. Richmond Grace S. Richmond (née Grace Louise Smith; Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 18661959) was an American writer. She wrote the "Red Pepper Burns" series of popular novels. Her father was a Baptist clergyman, Charles Edward Smith.
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Caroline Augusta Huling Caroline Augusta Alden Huling (April 2, 1856 – March 10, 1941) was an American journalist, philanthropist, editor, publisher and reformer. Huling published "The Bookseller" and edited numerous newsletters, among them "Social Progress", "The Stylus", and "The Sentinel". She also wrote two novels, "The Courage of Her Convictions" (1896) and "Letters of a Business Woman to Her Niece".
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Melany Neilson Melany Neilson (born December 1, 1958 in Moses Lake, Washington) is an American author. She grew up in Lexington, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in English in 1979, and a master's degree in journalism in 1986.
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Ramona Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican-American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scots–Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the "Christian Union" on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. It has had more than 300 printings, and been adapted five times as a film. A play adaptation has been performed annually outdoors since 1923.
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Nina Larrey Duryea Nina Larrey Duryea (August 11, 1874 — November 1, 1951) was an American writer, decorated for her relief work during World War I.
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Ivy Ruckman Ivy Ruckman (born May 25, 1931) is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Her works include "Melba the Brain" and "Night of the Twisters", inspired by a 1980 tornado event, the latter of which was made into a 1996 movie. "Night of the Twisters" was a best seller. Ruckman lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Vera Caspary Vera Louise Caspary (November 13, 1899 – June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Her best-known novel, "Laura", was made into a highly successful movie. Though she claimed she was not a "real" mystery writer, her novels effectively merged women's quest for identity and love with murder plots. Independence is the key to her protagonists, with her novels revolving around women who are menaced, but who turn out to be neither victimized nor rescued damsels.
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Sallie Bingham Sallie Bingham (born January 22, 1937) is an American author, playwright, poet, teacher, feminist activist, and philanthropist.She is the eldest daughter of Barry Bingham, Sr., patriarch of the Bingham family of Louisville, Kentucky which dominated the news media of the city and state for most of the 20th Century.
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Carol Gorman Carol Gorman (born February 16, 1962) is an American writer of children's fiction. She originally aspired to be an actress, and for a few years taught seventh grade at an Iowan middle school. Inspired by her husband and fellow author, Ed Gorman, she began writing in the mid-1980s. With over 22 books published under several names, Carol Gorman continues to write and teach.