Author

Walter D. Edmonds

born 15 July 1903 70 known books newest first

Walter Dumaux Edmonds was born in Boonville, New York, and began a longtime association with Harvard University when he entered Choate Rosemary Hall in 1919. He originally intended to study chemical engineering, but he became more interested in writing and worked as managing editor of the campus literary magazine. He received an A.B. in 1926. In 1929, he published his first novel, Rome Haul, about the Erie Canal. In 1930, he married Eleanor Stetson. His novel Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) was on the bestseller list for two years, second to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind for part of that time. In 1942 he won the Newbery Medal for his novel The Matchlock Gun (1941). When his wife died in 1956, he married Katherine Howe Baker Carr. In 1976 he was awarded the National Book Award for Children's Literature his novel Bert Breen's Barn (1975). Over the course of his career, he published 34 books, many for children.

Books

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70 books

Books

Tales my father never told

The South African quirt

The night raider and other stories

Bert Breen's Barn

The story of Richard Storm

Beaver valley

Seven American stories

Wolf hunt

Time to go house

The musket and the cross

They had a horse

Three stalwarts: Drums along the Mohawk, Rome haul [and] Erie water

Uncle Ben's whale

Hound Dog Moses and the promised land

The Boyds of Black River

Corporal Bess

They fought with what they had

Mr. Benedict's lion

Cadmus Henry

The Captive Women

The first hundred years, 1848-1948

In the hands of the Senecas

The wedding journey

Wilderness clearing

Two logs crossing

Tom Whipple

Young Ames

The matchlock gun

Chad Hanna

Moses

Pfauenfeder und kokarde

Drums along the Mohawk

Mostly canallers

Erie water

The big barn

Rome haul

Chad Hanna

Chad Hanna

Die Schlacht im Mohawktal

Drums along the Mohawk

Edmonds, Walter D.

Erie water

In the Hand of the Senecas

in the hands of the senecas

In the hands of the Senecas

In the Hands of the Senecas

Memorial of the Honorable Montgomery H. Throop

Mostly Canallers

Mr. Benedict's Lion

Report of the Coordinating Committee on Biological Sciences

Rome haul

Rome Haul.

ROME HAUL [ 1st ]

ROME HAUL. No. 191 in The Modern Library Series. [Dramatizeed under the title "The Farmer Takes a Wife"].

Story of Richard Storm

The Best Short Stories of 1933

The Big Barn

The Boyds of Black River

The Erie Canal

The Harvard Forest

The Matchlock Gun

The Matchlock Gun

The Musket and the Cross

The story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942

The Wedding Journey

They Fought with What They Had

Three Stalwarts

Three Stalwarts

Wolf Hunt

Young Ames