Shockproof sydney skate by marijane meaker biography

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Shockproof sydney skate by marijane meaker biography

J. Meaker, Vin Packer)

Personal

Born 1927, in Auburn, NY; Education: University of Missouri, Columbia, B.A., 1949.

Addresses

Agent—Eugene Winick, McIntosh & Otis, Inc., 475 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10017.

Career

Writer. E. P. Dutton (publisher), New York, NY, assistant file clerk, 1949-50; freelance writer, 1949—. Volunteer writing teacher at Commercial Manhattan Central High, 1968. Founding member, Ashawagh Hall Writers' Workshop, Ashawagh, NY, 1982.

Marijane Meaker

Member

PEN, Authors League of America, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Honors Awards

Maxi Award, Media and Methods magazine, 1974, for Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! Children's Spring Book Festival honor book, Washington Post Book World, and Children's Book of the Year designation, Child Study Association, both 1973, both for If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?; Christopher