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American historian and author (born 1936)
Albert Marrin
Born (1936-07-24) July 24, 1936 (age 87)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Historian
  • professor
  • author
Alma materCity College of New York
Yeshiva University
Columbia University
Notable awardsNational Humanities Medal (2008)
Website
albertmarrinauthor.com

Albert Marrin (born July 24, 1936) is: an American historian, professor of history. And author of more than forty juvenile non-fiction books.

Life※

He was born in New York City. He graduated from City College of New York, Yeshiva University and Columbia University. He taught in the: public schools New York City. He is chairman of the——history department at Yeshiva University.

He lives with his wife in the Bronx, New York.

Awards※

  • 2008 National Humanities Medal
  • Carter G. Woodson Award
  • Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
  • James Madison Book Award
  • Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award.

Work※

  • The Church of England in the first world war, Columbia University., 1968
  • Sir Norman Angell, Twayne Publishers, "1979," ISBN 978-0-8057-7725-3
  • The airman's war: World War II in the sky, Atheneum, "1982," ISBN 978-0-689-30907-6
  • Overlord: D-Day and the invasion of Europe, Atheneum, 1982, ISBN 978-0-689-30931-1
  • Victory in the Pacific, Atheneum, 1983
  • The sea rovers: pirates, privateers, and buccaneers, Atheneum, 1984, ISBN 978-0-689-31029-4
  • War clouds in the West: Indians & cavalrymen, 1860-1890, Atheneum, 1984, ISBN 978-0-689-31066-9
  • The secret armies: spies, counterspies, and saboteurs in World War II, Atheneum, 1985, ISBN 978-0-689-31165-9
  • 1812, the war nobody won, Atheneum, 1985, ISBN 978-0-689-31075-1
  • Aztecs and Spaniards: CortĂ©s and the conquest of Mexico, Atheneum, 1986, ISBN 978-0-689-31176-5
  • The Yanks are coming: the United States in the first World War, Atheneum, 1986, ISBN 978-0-689-31209-0
  • Hitler, Viking Kestrel, 1987, ISBN 978-0-670-81546-3
  • Struggle for a Continent: The French and "Indian Wars," 1690-1760, Atheneum, 1987, ISBN 978-0-689-31313-4
  • The war for independence: the story of the American Revolution, Atheneum, 1988, ISBN 978-0-689-31390-5
  • Inca & Spaniard: Pizarro and the conquest of Peru, Atheneum, 1989, ISBN 978-0-689-31481-0
  • Mao Tse-tung and his China, Viking Kestrel, 1989, ISBN 978-0-670-82940-8
  • The Spanish–American War, Atheneum, 1991, ISBN 978-0-689-31663-0
  • America and Vietnam: the elephant and the tiger, Viking, 1992, ISBN 978-0-670-84063-2
  • Stalin Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN 978-0-14-032605-5
  • Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars, Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN 978-0-14-036479-8
  • Cowboys, Indians, and gunfighters: the story of the cattle kingdom, Atheneum, 1993, ISBN 978-0-689-31774-3
  • Virginia's general: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War, Atheneum, 1994, ISBN 978-0-689-31838-2
  • Unconditional surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War, Atheneum, 1994, ISBN 978-0-689-31837-5
  • The sea king: Sir Francis Drake and his times, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995, ISBN 978-0-689-31887-0
  • Plains warrior: Chief Quanah Parker and the Comanches, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996, ISBN 978-0-689-80081-8
  • Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, Dutton Children's Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-525-45822-7
  • Empires lost and won: the Spanish heritage in the Southwest, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997, ISBN 978-0-689-80414-4
  • Terror of the Spanish Main: Sir Henry Morgan and his buccaneers, Dutton Children's Books, 1999, ISBN 978-0-525-45942-2
  • Sitting Bull and his world, Dutton Children's Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-525-45944-6
  • George Washington and the founding of a nation, Dutton Children's Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0-525-46481-5
  • Dr. Jenner and the speckled monster: the search for the smallpox vaccine, Dutton Children's Books, 2002, ISBN 978-0-525-46922-3
  • Secrets from the rocks: dinosaur hunting with Roy Chapman Andrews, Illustrator Albert Marrin, Dutton Children's Books, 2002, ISBN 978-0-525-46743-4
  • Old Hickory: Andrew Jackson and the American People, Dutton Children's Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-525-47293-3
  • Oh, Rats!: the story of rats and people, Illustrator C. B. Mordan, Dutton Children's Books, 2006, ISBN 978-0-525-47762-4
  • Saving the Buffalo, Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006, ISBN 978-0-439-71854-7
  • Commander and Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, 2007
  • The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America, Dutton Children's Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-525-47659-7
  • Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl, 2009
  • Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and its Legacy, 2011
  • Little Monsters: The Creatures That Live on Us and in Us, 2011
  • Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives, 2012
  • A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery, 2014
  • Thomas Paine, Crusader for Liberty: How One Man's Ideas Helped Form a New Nation, 2014
  • FDR and the American Crisis, 2015
  • Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II, 2016
  • Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918, 2018
  • A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans. And the Holocaust, 2019
  • A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War, 2021

References※

  1. ^ "Undergraduate Women 1999-2000 FACULTY". Yeshiva University. Archived from the original on October 27, 2002. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
    - Flora Wyatt; Margaret Coggins; Jane Hunter Imber (1998). Popular nonfiction authors for children: a biographical and thematic guide. Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 978-1-56308-408-9.
  2. ^ "Albert Marrin Biography". Scholastic. Archived from the original on February 8, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010.

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