Benjamin Franklin

World Leaders Past & Present

by Charles Parlin Graves

A biography of the accomplished and influential eighteenth-century printer, inventor, scientist, statesman, and diplomat

Library Binding

First published June 1, 1960

About the author

Charles Parlin Graves, who wrote more than 20 children's books, died Wednesday, August 2nd of cancer in Phelps Memorial Hospital, North Tarrytown, N.Y. He was 61 years old and lived in Irvington‐on‐Hudson, N.Y.

Mr. Graves devoted himself in the last 14 years to writing children's books, mainly biographical, on such people as John F. and Robert F. Kennedy, Benjamin Franklin, Grandma Moses, Nellie Bly, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Muir and Mark Twain.

Earlier, he had been an advertising copy writer and had been with Dancer‐Fitzgerald Sample, Inc., and other agencies. In World War II he served with the Army in the Aleutian Islands and in the Pacific as a lieutenant.

He graduated from the University of Florida in 1933.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a biography for young readers. It gives a great overview of Benjamin Franklin's life. It is simple and direct. Children may need more information about the importance of his work concerning the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of The United States. I feel that these are told a little too simplistically.