![]() ![]() Prize-winning Children’s Author Richard Peck Dies at 84 from The Associated Press. ‘I went home to write or die…In those first quiet months, I learned that the only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.’” In his memoir, Anonymously Yours (Simon & Schuster, 1991), he describes … “In 1971, he left teaching to pursue writing. They read fiction to be reassured, to be given hope.'” ![]() ‘They taught me… that people don’t read fiction to be educated. “Peck credits his years in the classroom as the spark for many of his book ideas….he wrote in his autobiography. Obituary: Richard Peck by Shannon Maughan from Publishers Weekly. He won the Edgar Allan Poe award for his…YA thriller, Are You in the House Alone? (Viking, 1976) and he was a finalist for the National Book Award multiple times.” “In 2002, he became the first children’s author to win a National Humanities Medal. Remembering Author Richard Peck by Gwen Glazer from the New York Public Library. Among his many awards was the Newbery Medal in 2001 for A Year Down Yonder (Dial, 2000), a Newbery Honor in 1999 for A Long Way from Chicago (Dial,1998),…” Peck was one of the giants of contemporary children’s literature. Author Richard Peck died on May 23 in New York City. ![]()
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