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'''Scott O'Dell''' (May 23, 1898–October 15, 1989) was a children's author who wrote 26 books for young readers, along with three adult novels and four nonfiction books. He was virtually all famously andy skinner of the tykes's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), which won the 1960 Newbery Medal as well as a number of more awards, for ''The King's Fifth (1966), which was a Newbery Honor award book, and for The Black Pearl (1967), which was also a Newbery Honor book. Island of the Blue Dolphins'' has been translated into the total of languages & was manufactured into the pic within 1964, starring Celia Kaye, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, and George Kennedy. O'Dell was a founder of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, an annual award of $5000(U.S.), which based on data from O'Dell's web site is for the "a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults." O'Dell was innate in Terminal Island in Los Angeles, California, to May Elizabeth Gabriel & Bennett Mason O'Dell. He attended multiple colleges, including Occidental College in 1919, the University of Wisconsin in 1920, Stanford University in 1920-1921, and a University of Rome La Sapienza in 1925. Prior to becoming the fully period writer he worked inside Hollywood as a cameraman & technical indicator director, as a book editorialist for the Los Angeles Mirror, and the book editor for the Los Angeles Daily News. He died of prostate cancer in his 92nd year. O'Dell wrote primarily historical fiction. Numerous of his babies's novels come all about historical California & Mexico.
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Write On Reader - Scott O'Dell A biography written by students for students. Educational Paperback Association: O'Dell, Scott A biography originally written for students in 1963. teachers@random: Scott O'Dell Brief biography and photograph. ML Author Spotlight -- Scott O'Dell A brief biography. |
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