Esther Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. In 1898 she moved with her family to Worcester, Massachusetts, where she was educated at the Bancroft School. Although vision problems impaired her studies, she thrived on creative writing assignments. In 1912, she graduated from Bradford Junior Academy. In 1918, she moved to Boston and worked as an editor at Houghton Mifflin Company. In 1926, her first novel, Oh Genteel Lady!, was published. That same year, she married, but was divorced in 1933.
Over the course of her career Forbes published 11 books, including the biography Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (1942), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the historical novel Johnny Tremain (1943), which won the 1944 Newbery Medal. She died in 1967 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Johnny Tremain
44 editions - first published in 1943 Checked out -
Paul Revere & the world he lived in
17 editions - first published in 1942 Borrow -
A mirror for witches
9 editions - first published in 1928 Borrow -
Rainbow on the road
5 editions - first published in 1954 Read -
O genteel lady!
5 editions - first published in 1926 Borrow -
America's Paul Revere
5 editions - first published in 1946 Borrow -
The general's lady
3 editions - first published in 1938 -
The running of the tide
3 editions - first published in 1948 Borrow -
Anne Douglas Sedgwick: an interview, and appreciations by William Lyon Phelps [and others]
2 editions - first published in 1920 Read -
Paul Revere: And the World He Lived in
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Paul Revere tries his hand at dentistry: excerpts from Paul Revere & the world he lived in
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Johnny Tremain
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The Boston book
1 edition - first published in 1947 Read -
Miss Marvel
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Johnny Tremain
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Johnny Tremain
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Qiangni Teleimeng
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Qiangni Teleimeng
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- ESTHER FORBES
- Esther Hoskins Forbes
- Forbes Esther
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| April 19, 2012 | Edited by 164.104.223.198 | Update photos |
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