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Edward Fenton

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Edward Fenton


Born
New York, NY, The United States
Genre
Children's Books


Edward Fenton is the author of many books for young readers, including The Phantom of Walkway Hill, which won the Edgar Award for the best juvenile mystery of its year. His three translations of the Greek write Alki Zei have all received the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for outstanding books translated from a foreign language. In addition, his poems and stories have appeared in several magazines, among them The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Cricket, and The Horn Book.

Mr. Fenton was born in New York City, but is "Greek by adoption." he and his wife, Sophia Havarti, a well-known educator and child psychologist, live in Athens and in Galixidi, an old sea captain's village on the coast near Delphi. ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 506 ratings · 63 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors
Anne of the Thousand Days
3.88 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1970 — 8 editions
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The Phantom of Walkaway Hill
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3.73 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1961 — 13 editions
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The Refugee Summer
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions
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The Nine Questions
4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1951 — 2 editions
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The Morning of the Gods
3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions
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Fierce John
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1951 — 6 editions
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Μια φορά ένα Σάββατο
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1958
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Duffy's Rocks
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1974 — 6 editions
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Hidden Trapezes
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1950 — 6 editions
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Riddle of the Red Whale
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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“Madame Arnauld made a little face. 'I did not think they were so aristocratic,' she said, 'even if they come from Boston, which is supposed to be the most refined place in America.”
― Edward Fenton, The Refugee Summer
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