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Richard Peck (b. 1934) is an American novelist known for his prolific contributions to modern young adult literature. He was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder. April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ...
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Young adult (YA) literature is literature written for, published for, or marketed to young adults. ...
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A Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck that won the Newbery Medal in 2001. ...
Biography Born and raised in Decatur, Illinois, Peck's parents were rural-to-urban migrants with contrasting educational backgrounds: his mother is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan and his father's education ended at sixth grade.[3] The Decatur Transfer House in the background with a newly completed fountain in the foreground. ...
Peck studied at DePauw University, earning a bachelor's degree in English in 1956. While there, he belonged to the Delta Chi fraternity and spent his junior year abroad at the University of Exeter. After college, he was drafted into the US Army and spent two years serving in Stuttgart, Germany. In a 2003 interview, he said about it: "I think your view of the world goes on—for the rest of your life—as the world you saw as you emerged into it as an adult."[2] DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, USA, is a private, national liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. ...
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After his military service ended, he completed a master's degree at Southern Illinois University in 1959 and taught junior high and high school English. He left teaching in 1971 to write his first novel, Don't Look and It Won't Hurt. Southern Illinois University is a university in southern Illinois with two institutions and multiple campuses. ...
Peck is a private person "who is fastidious about what he allows others to know about himself. He knows, respects, and honors personal boundaries in ways that are refreshing for someone who grew up in the sixties and seventies, when every little personal thing was fair game."[4] He currently lives in New York and splits his time between writing and traveling. Peck is an adjunct professor with Louisiana State University's School of Library and Information Sciences.[3] Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. ...
Philosophical and/or political views Peck is very strongly anti-censorship.[5] He is a Methodist and a Republican
Works Peck writes exclusively on a typewriter, described here in Publishers Weekly: When the author is not traveling, he works at an L-shaped desk, which affords a view north through a large sunny window. He writes everything on an electric typewriter because "it has to be a book from the first day," he explains. He has no daily routine because of all the traveling he does, but follows a very disciplined writing process. He writes each page six times, then places it in a three-ring binder with a DePauw University cover ("a talisman," he calls this memento from his alma mater). When he feels that he has gotten a page just right, he takes out another 20 words. "After a year, I've come to the end. Then I'll take this first chapter, and without rereading it, I'll throw it away and write the chapter that goes at the beginning. Because the first chapter is the last chapter in disguise." He always hands in a completed manuscript, and his editor is his first reader.[2] His collected papers written between 1972 and 1991 reside at the University of Southern Mississippi.[6] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Published works
Anthologies - 1970: Sounds and Silences: Poems For Now
- 1971: Mindscapes: Poems for the Real World
- 1973: Leap Into Reality: Essays For Now
- 1976: Pictures That Storm Inside My Head (poetry anthology, editor)
- 2004: Past Perfect, Present Tense (short story collection)
Novels - 1972: Don't Look and It Won't Hurt
- 1973: Dreamland Lake
- 1973: Through a Brief Darkness
- 1974: Representing Super Doll
- 1976: Are You in the House Alone?
- 1976: The Ghost Belonged to Me
- 1977: Ghosts I Have Been
- 1977: Monster Night at Grandma's House
- 1978: Father Figure
- 1979: Secrets of the Shopping Mall
- 1980: Amanda/Miranda
- 1981: Close Enough to Touch
- 1981: New York Time
- 1983: The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
- 1983: This Family of Women
- 1985: Remembering the Good Times
- 1986: Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death
- 1987: Princess Ashley
- 1987: Write a Tale of Terror
- 1988: Those Summer Girls I Never Met
- 1989: Voices After Midnight
- 1991: Unfinished Portrait of Jessica
- 1993: Bel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats
- 1995: Lost in Cyberspace
- 1995: The Last Safe Place on Earth
- 1996: The Great Interactive Dream Machine: Another Adventure in Cyberspace
- 1998: London Holiday
- 1998: A Long Way from Chicago
- 1998: Strays Like Us
- 2000: A Year Down Yonder
- 2001: Fair Weather
- 2003: The River Between Us
- 2004: The Teacher's Funeral
- 2006: Here Lies The Librarian
- 2007: On the Wings of Heroes
A Long Way from Chicago is a childrens novel in stories by Richard Peck. ...
A Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck that won the Newbery Medal in 2001. ...
Nonfiction - 1971: The Creative Word
- 1974: Transitions: a Literary Paper Casebook
- 1974: Urban Studies: a Research Paper Casebook
- 1991: Anonymously Yours (autobiography)
- 1994: Love and Death at the Mall: Teaching and Writing for the Literate Young
- 2002: Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young
Works adapted into movies - 1976: The Ghost Belonged to Me
- 1977: Are You in the House Alone?
- 1978: Child of Glass (The Ghost Belonged to Me)
- 1980: Father Figure
- 1991: Gas Food Lodging (Don't Look and It Won't Hurt)
Child of Glass is a TV movie based upon a novel by Richard Peck (The Ghost Belonged To Me). ...
Gas Food Lodging is a 1992 movie directed by Allison Anders about a waitress trying to find romance while raising two daughters in a trailer-park. ...
Awards - 1974: Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee, Best Juvenile, Dreamland Lake
- 1977: Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Juvenile, Are You in the House Alone?
- 1990: Margaret A. Edwards Award [7]
- 1990: ALAN Award[8]
- 1991: University of Southern Mississippi Medallion
- 1999: National Book Award finalist, A Long Way from Chicago
- 1999: Newbery Honor, A Long Way from Chicago [9]
- 2001: Newbery Medal, A Year Down Yonder [9]
- 2001: National Humanities Medal [10]
- 2004: Jeremiah Ludington Memorial Award [11]
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The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA) to the author of the outstanding American book for children. ...
The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ...
References - ^ Random House: Authors: Richard Peck. Accessed 2 December 2006.
- ^ a b c Brown, Jennifer M. "Richard Peck: A Long Way from Decatur", Publishers Weekly, July 21, 2003.
- ^ a b Meyer, E. Duane. "A Morning With The 2001 Newbery Medal Winner, Richard W. Peck, DePauw ’56". Delta Chi Quaterly, Fall/Winter 2001: 6-7, 20.
- ^ Talbert, Marc. "Richard Peck", The Horn Book Magazine, July/August 2001.
- ^ Peck, Richard. "Battered by Left and by Right", Illinois Issues, July 1993: 24-26.
- ^ Richard Peck Papers. The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, University of Southern Mississippi.
- ^ 1990 Award Winner Richard Peck. American Library Association. Accessed 2 December 2006.
- ^ Gill, David. Alan Award Recipients. The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents. Accessed 2 December 2006.
- ^ a b Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present. American Library Association. Accessed 2 December 2006.
- ^ Winners of the National Humanities Medal and the Charles Frankel Prize. National Endowment for the Humanities. Accessed 2 December 2006.
- ^ Jeremiah Ludington Memorial Award. Educational Paperback Association. Accessed 2 December 2006.
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