Esther Forbes

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Born:
June 28, 1891
Died:
Aug. 12, 1967

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Esther Louise Forbes (June 28, 1891 – August 12, 1967) was an American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society.

Books by Esther Forbes

Esther Forbes, Lynd Ward: Johnny Tremain (1987, Dell)

Johnny Tremain

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James Baldwin, Herman Melville, E.B. White, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Adrienne Rich, John Steinbeck, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Tom Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Mark Twain, William Least Heat Moon, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Lewis Thomas, Eugene O'Neill, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Annie Dillard, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Toomer, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Thornton Wilder, Dorothy Parker, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, John Updike, Edgar Lee Masters, Patrick F. McManus, Richard Wright, Richard Rodriguez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine, N. Scott Momaday, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Galway Kinnell, Marianne Moore, Irwin Shaw, Margaret Walker, Ezra Pound, Lawson Fusao Inada, Vannevar Bush, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Denise Levertov, Bernard Malamud, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, Pearl S. Buck, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Forbes, Robert E. Lee, Katherine Anne Porter, Conrad Richter, George Santayana, Robinson Jeffers, William Saroyan, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Jacques Barzun, Robert Anderson, Cotton Mather, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Paul Farmer, Abraham Lincoln, James E. Miller, Carlotta Cardenas de Dwyer, Robert Hayden, Russell J. Hogan, Kerry M. Wood Miller, James E. Miller Jr., Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, Edward Rowe Snow, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Louise Bogan, Lillian Hellman, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John N. Morris, Vern Rutsala, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Eugenia Collier, Walter Blair, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Bernard DeVoto, Conrad Aiken, Byrd, William, Captain John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Engle, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, White, W. L., John Davenport, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Jesse Stuart, Douglas S. Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Robert C. Pooley, Day, Clarence, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1979, Scott, Foresman and Company)

The United States in Literature

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Esther Forbes: Paul Revere & the World He Lived In (Hardcover, 1942, Houghton Mifflin) No rating

Paul Revere & the World He Lived In

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Esther Forbes, Esther Hoskins Forbes: Johnny Tremain (1998, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)

Johnny Tremain

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Esther Forbes: Johnny Tremain (1943, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Johnny Tremain

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Esther Forbes: A Mirror for Witches (Paperback, 2003, Kessinger Publishing) No rating

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