American historian and author (born 1936)
Albert Marrin | |
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Born | (1936-07-24) July 24, 1936 (age 87) New York City, U.S. |
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Alma mater | City College of New York Yeshiva University Columbia University |
Notable awards | National Humanities Medal (2008) |
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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: Cortés 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※
- ^ "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. - ^ "Albert Marrin Biography". Scholastic. Archived from the original on February 8, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
External links※
Categories:
- 1936 births
- 20th-century American historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- American children's writers
- Carter G. Woodson Book Award winners
- City College of New York alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- Living people
- National Humanities Medal recipients
- Yeshiva University alumni
- Yeshiva University faculty
- 20th-century American male writers