Walter Dumaux Edmonds was born in Boonville, New York, and began a longtime association with Harvard University when he entered Choate Rosemary Hall in 1919. He originally intended to study chemical engineering, but he became more interested in writing and worked as managing editor of the campus literary magazine. He received an A.B. in 1926. In 1929, he published his first novel, Rome Haul, about the Erie Canal. In 1930, he married Eleanor Stetson. His novel Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) was on the bestseller list for two years, second to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind for part of that time. In 1942 he won the Newbery Medal for his novel The Matchlock Gun (1941). When his wife died in 1956, he married Katherine Howe Baker Carr. In 1976 he was awarded the National Book Award for Children's Literature his novel Bert Breen's Barn (1975). Over the course of his career, he published 34 books, many for children.
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The matchlock gun
10 editions - first published in 1941 -
Chad Hanna
8 editions - first published in 1940 -
Drums along the Mohawk
8 editions - first published in 1936 -
In the hands of the Senecas
5 editions - first published in 1947 -
Bert Breen's Barn
5 editions - first published in 1975 -
The first hundred years, 1848-1948
3 editions - first published in 1948 -
Rome haul
3 editions - first published in 1929 -
Young Ames
3 editions - first published in 1942 -
The Boyds of Black River
3 editions - first published in 1953 -
Time to go house
3 editions - first published in 1969 -
Hound Dog Moses and the promised land
3 editions - first published in 1954 -
Hound Dog Moses and the Promised Land
2 editions - first published in 1954 -
Two logs crossing
2 editions - first published in 1943 -
Erie water
2 editions - first published in 1933 -
Seven American stories
2 editions - first published in 1970 -
Mostly canallers
2 editions - first published in 1934 -
Tales my father never told
2 editions - first published in 1995 -
They had a horse
2 editions - first published in 1962 -
Tom Whipple
2 editions - first published in 1942 -
The South African quirt
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
Tom Whipple
1 edition - first published in 1942 -
Moses
1 edition - first published in 1938 -
Cadmus Henry
1 edition - first published in 1949 -
Wolf hunt
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
The Captive Women
1 edition - first published in 1949 -
Corporal Bess
1 edition - first published in 1952 -
The big barn
1 edition - first published in 1930 -
The story of Richard Storm
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
Beaver valley
1 edition - first published in 1971 -
They had a horse
1 edition - first published in 1962 -
The Matchlock Gun
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Drums along the Mohawk
1 edition - first published in 1963 -
The musket and the cross
1 edition - first published in 1968 -
Mr. Benedict's lion
1 edition - first published in 1950 -
Uncle Ben's whale
1 edition - first published in 1955 -
They Fought With What They Had: The Story Of The Army Air Forces In The Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
The first hundred years, 1848-1948
1 edition - first published in 1958 -
Drums along the Mohawk
1 edition - first published in 1963
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