William Corbin (author)
William Corbin, William Corbin actually McGraw ( born January 22, 1916 in Des Moines, Iowa, † June 6, 1999 in Portland, Oregon ) was an American journalist, children's book author and hazelnut farmer.
Life
William Corbin McGraw was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He had completed his studies in English literature at Drake University and a research paper at Harvard University started before in as a journalist for the Athens Messenger in Ohio, the plan dealer in Cleveland, the Oklahoma City Times in Oklahoma and the Union - Tribune San Diego worked.
In 1940 he married the later Eloise Jarvis McGraw children's book author and pulled her to the Willamette Valley in the south of Portland. They had two children. His wife had started writing in 1949 San Diego, where William Corbin McCraw worked at the time as a news reporter. He himself wrote in 1952 with his first novel, Dead Line, which, however, rather an educational novel for young adults was similar, as he described the process of maturation of the 18 -year-old Dan Logan, who begins a career as a journalist for a small newspaper. To avoid confusion, he used his middle name as part of his pseudonym. His own journalistic background, he used - albeit to a lesser extent - in his novel High Road Home † (1953 ), in which a former refugee and young reporter researching in a nationwide search for a columnist.
Typical for him, however, were his later children's books in which mostly revolved around dogs and horses. A typical example of this was seen as Smoke ( 1967), in which the reconciliation between a boy and his stepfather was based on the fact that both had to take care of a starving German Shepherd.
As a journalist and children's book author, he noted in a meeting of ironic that male writers of his time still caricatured female librarians to enter log on for their indirect censorship of Mark Twain to reciprocate The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw survived her husband by 18 months.
Works
- Deadline. Coward - McCann, New York, 1952.
- High road home. Coward - McCann, New York, 1954.
- Golden mare Illustrated by Pers Crowell. Coward - McCann, New York, 1955.
- Pony for keeps. Illustrated by Peter Burchard. Coward - McCann, New York 1958. German edition: Tipsy, you wanna be my friend? A pony history. Translated by Sonda Heyer. Albert Müller Verlag, Rüschlikon / Stuttgart / Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-275-00495-6.
- German edition: A horse in the house. Translated by Ursula von Wiese. Albert Müller Verlag, Rüschlikon / Stuttgart / Vienna 1968.
- German edition: Christoph and his dog. Translated by Marga Rupert. Albert Müller Verlag, Rüschlikon / Stuttgart / Vienna 1969.
- German edition: The mystery of Notre Dame. Translated by Marianne Pietsch. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-522-12080-9.
- German edition: Supertex the super dog. Translated by Marianne Pietsch. Illustrated by Ruth Hagen- Torn. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-522-12230-5.