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 Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:16 am |
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He lives in NYC.
He's written about 50 books for children and four for adults.
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=%22william+wise%22+books
(a few covers, no relevant photos)
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1834/Wise-William-1923.html
(long booklist, short biography)
Excerpt:
"A prolific author of both fiction and nonfiction, William Wise has
been writing books for children for nearly half a century. His work
includes straight nonfiction books and whimsical titles on mythical
monsters, as well as rhyming picture books for the very young. Among
his many children's titles are the rambunctious Ten Sly Piranhas: A
Counting Story in Reverse (a Tale of Wickedness—and Worse!), the
historical novel Nell of Brandford Hall (1999), and the humorous
picture book Dinosaurs Forever."
Other titles include:
"Detective Pinkerton and Mr. Lincoln" -1964
"When the Saboteurs Came: The Nazi Sabotage Plot against America in
World War II" - 1967
"Monsters of the Ancient Seas" -1968
"Booker T. Washington" - 1968
"The Amazing Animals of Latin America" -1969
"Fresh, Canned, and Frozen: Food from Past to Future" -1971
"Monsters of North America" -1978
He's also written fiction:
"The novel Nell of Branford Hall (1999) is based on a true story that
took place in seventeenth-century England in a town called Eyam. Faced
with an outbreak of the bubonic plague in their town, the citizens of
Wise's fictional Branford decide to quarantine their entire village,
allowing no one in or out and placing any citizens with symptoms of
the black death under strict quarantine. Nell, part of a well-to-do
family, lives beyond the village limits in a manor hall, and when
Branford is barricaded, she faces isolation and anxiety as she worries
about her friends inside the village proper and wonders whether the
horrors of the plague will visit her unprotected home. Characters such
as Isaac Newton and diarist Samuel Pepys also feature in the novel,
and Nell's father, a scholar, educates his daughter in the medical
science behind the dread disease."
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