Oral History of Munro Leaf
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Leaf, Munro
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1975-10-23
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The renowned children's author Munro Leaf talks about his career in publishing and writing "Ferdinand" and other children's books.
Family roots in Maryland, childhood & education; head of the English department, Belmont Hills High School; manuscript reader at Bobbs-Merrill and F.A. Stokes Company; entry into children's books with "Grammar Can Be Fun;" publicity trip on the West Coast; birth of two sons; start of World War II and joining the army in 1942; writing a field manual for the army on malaria; relationship with Dr. William C. Meninger, author of "You and Psychology" and a proposal to write a book on encephalitis; raising a family in Greenwich, CT and Andover, MA; international assignments with the Cultural Educational Exchange.
Universal appeal of "Ferdinand" and its worldwide translations; how Viking came to publish "Ferdinand;" working with the illustrator Robert Lawson and writing "Ferdinand;" publication of "Ferdinand" amidst the Spanish War and book party sponsored by the Friends Service Committee; on writing "Robert Francis Weatherbee;" on writing "Wee Gillis;" on writing "Metrics for Fun and the story of Alexander Graham Bell's use of metrics; on writing the "Watchbirds;" sophistication of children and adults today; Garrett Park.
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Montgomery County Historical Society