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Esther Forbes

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.

novelist (1891-1967)

Born	28 June 1891
Died	12 August 1967

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Johnny Tremain: A Story Boston in Revolt

by Esther Forbes
First published in 1943 — 70 editions
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Paul Revere and the world he lived in

by Esther Forbes
First published in 1942 — 25 editions
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A Mirror for Witches

by Esther Forbes
First published in 1928 — 14 editions
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The United States in Literature

by James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and 190 others
First published in 1952 — 12 editions
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America's Paul Revere

by Esther Forbes
First published in 1946 — 7 editions
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Rainbow on the road

by Esther Forbes First published in 1954 — 7 editions
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The General's Lady

by Esther Forbes First published in 1938 — 6 editions
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The running of the tide

by Esther Forbes
First published in 1948 — 6 editions
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What happened in Salem?: Documents pertaining to the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials.

by David Levin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Esther Forbes First published in 1952 — 6 editions
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O genteel lady!

by Esther Forbes First published in 1926 — 6 editions
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O genteel lady!

by Esther Forbes First published in 1926 — 2 editions

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Paul Revere & The World He Lived In

by Esther Forbes First published in 1941 — 2 editions

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick: an interview, and appreciations by William Lyon Phelps [and others]

by Esther Forbes First published in 1920 — 2 editions
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Miss Marvel

by Esther Forbes First published in 1935 — 2 editions
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Paradise

by Esther Forbes First published in 1937 — 2 editions

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Johnny Tremain (SparkNotes Literature Guide)

by SparkNotes Staff and Esther Forbes First published in 2014 — 1 edition

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America's Paul Revere, Written by Esther Forbes; Pictures by Lynd Ward

by Esther Forbes First published in 1946 — 1 edition

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by Esther Forbes First published in 1953 — 1 edition

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by Esther Forbes First published in 1953 — 1 edition

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by Esther Forbes First published in 1964 — 1 edition

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Born	28 June 1891
Died	12 August 1967

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OLID: OL301491A
ISNI: 0000000081207185
Library of Congress Names: n50024798
VIAF: 41960359
Wikidata: Q454420
Inventaire.io: wd:Q454420

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Esther Hoskins Forbes
ESTHER FORBES
Esther. Forbes
Ester Forbes
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