Richard Atwater (1892–1948)
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About the Author
Richard Atwater was born on December 29, 1892 in Chicago, and educated at the University of Chicago, where he later taught Greek. In addition to teaching, Atwater worked as a book editor and newspaper columnist. Atwater wrote several books in his lifetime, including Doris and the Trolls and Rickety näytä lisää Rimes of Riq. However, it was his children's book Mr. Popper's Penguins that made him famous. In this story a house painter receives several penguins as a present. He keeps them in his refrigerator and the trouble they create is chronicled in the story. In 1934, Atwater suffered a stroke. Atwater's wife revised and completed the manuscript. Richard Atwater died on August 21, 1948. Mr. Popper's Penguins won the Newberry Medal in 1939 and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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(eng) One Atwater per author page, please! Yes, the same Richard Atwater translated the Secret History and wrote Mr. Popper's Penguin.
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Atwater, Richard
- Syntymäaika
- 1892-12-29
- Kuolinaika
- 1948-08-21
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Ammatit
- professor
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- Atwater, Florence (spouse)
- Erotteluhuomautus
- One Atwater per author page, please!
Yes, the same Richard Atwater translated the Secret History and wrote Mr. Popper's Penguin.
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Here's another book that begs for a great screenplay. And of course I want to play Mrs. Popper. My only worry is that Hollywood ruins it as there is little in the way of plot tension and who knows what might get thrown in to up the drama!
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This is a really sweet story about a man who is sent penguins, and all the fun silliness that unfolds with him, his family, and his new pets.
"Janie and Bill would often bring their little friends home from school with them, and they would all go down and watch the penguins for hours.
"At night, instead of sitting and reading and smoking his pipe in the living room, as he had done before, Mr. Popper would put on his overcoat and take his things downstairs. There he would sit and read, with his mittens on, looking up from time to time to see what his pets were doing. He often thought.... how different his life had been before the penguins had come to keep him occupied.... He dreaded to think of the time when.... he would have to leave them all day..." pp 79-80… (lisätietoja)