Pam Conrad

Pam Conrad (June 18, 1947 January 22, 1996) was an American children's writer. Her book Our House: Stories of Levittown was a Newbery Medal finalist.[1] Her book Stonewords won an Edgar Award.

Pam Conrad was born in New York City and graduated the New School for Social Research. She died of breast cancer on January 22, 1996 at the age of 48. She lived in Rockville Centre New York where she raised two daughters.

Books

  • Holding Me Here
  • Our House: Stories of Levittown
  • Zoe Rising
  • Call Me Ahnighito
  • The Tub People
  • Stonewords
  • My Daniel
  • Prairie Songs
  • Staying Nine
  • Pedro's Journal
  • Taking the Ferry Home
  • What I Did for Roman
  • Pumpkin Moon
  • This Mess (originally published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books in 1980; again in the re-illustrated in 1998 by Elizabeth Sayles)
  • The Tub People Christmas
  • I Don't Live Here
  • Molly And The Strawberry Day
  • Don't Go Near That Rabbit Frank
  • Animal Lullabies
  • Dollface
  • Prairie Visions: The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher

References

  1. "Pam Conrad, 48, Children's Author", The New York Times, January 26, 1996.

(https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=20289&recCount=25&recPointer=14&bibId=581878&searchType=7&resultPointer=0 "Conrad, Pam, The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher, 1st ed., New York, NY, Harper Collins, 1991, Library of Congress.</ref>


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