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Monica Shannon


Born
March 07, 1893

Died
August 13, 1965


Monica G. Shannon Wing was a Canadian-born American children's author. Her book Dobry, published in 1934, received the Newbery Medal in 1935.
Shannon was born in Canada to Irish immigrants Patrick and Eliza Keena Shannon, but moved to the United States before her first birthday. They lived in Seattle first before settling in Montana's Bitter Root Valley, where she grew up on the ranches her father supervised. The stories told by her father's Bulgarian ranch-hands influenced her writing, as did her love for nature. Even as a child Shannon's writing reflected her love for nature and the shepherds on her family's ranch. For one elementary school assignment to write about her favorite Bible character, Shannon chose Joseph of the Old Testament, w ...more

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