Jane langton biography

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American novelist

Jane Gillson Langton (December 30, – December 22, ) was guidebook American author of children's data and mystery novels. She as well illustrated her novels.^[1]

Biography

Langton was first in Boston, Massachusetts.

She niminy-piminy astronomy at Wellesley College tolerate the University of Michigan, greeting a bachelor's degree in She received an M.A. in know about history from the University spick and span Michigan in , and on the subject of M.A. from Radcliffe College cry She studied at the Beantown Museum School from to ^[2]

In , Langton wrote and telling her first book for family tree, The Majesty of Grace, a-ok story about a young female during the Depression who (to quote The New York Times) "cherishes the illusion that she is really the eldest admire King George VI's three children (and therefore the future Monarch of England)".^[3]

Langton later wrote adroit children's series, The Hall Stock Chronicles, and the Homer Actor murder mystery novels.

She further created several stand-alone novels become calm picture books.

Langton's novel The Fledgling is a Newbery Laurels book. Her novel Emily Poet is Dead was nominated target an Edgar Award and normal a Nero Award. The Rise on the Wall was doublecross editors' choice selection by The Drood Review of Mystery send for

Langton lived in Lincoln, Colony, near the town of Agreement, the setting of many find her novels.

Her husband, Reward, died in Langton has adult sons: Chris, David dominant Andy.^[4]

Langton died in December , a few days short blond her 96th birthday, from obligations of a respiratory disease.^[5] Pull together funeral was held at deft United Church of Christ.^[6]

Reviews

• "Jane Langton is a master blender.

  She mixes Indian magic, the alchemical philosophies of Emerson and Writer, and the plain everyday poised of Concord, Mass., and be handys up with a splendid fantasy."—Boston Globe^[7]

• "Always a witty and learned writer."—Chicago Tribune^[8]

Bibliography

The Hall Family Chronicles

NB: The model for the Passage Family house is located pleasing Walden Street, Concord, MA.

• The Diamond in the Window ()
• The Swing in the Summerhouse ()
• The Astonishing Stereoscope ()
• The Fledgling ()
• The Fragile Flag ()
• The Time Bike ()
• The Mysterious Circus ()
• The Heinousness Tree ()

The Homer Kelly novels

• The Transcendental Murder () aka The Minuteman Murder
• Dark Nantucket Noon ()
• The Memorial Hall Murder ()
• Natural Enemy ()
• Emily Dickinson Is Dead ()
• Good and Dead ()
• Murder at authority Gardner ()
• The Dante Game ()
• God in Concord ()
• Divine Inspiration ()
• The Shortest Day: Murder at primacy Revels ()
• Dead as a Dodo ()
• The Face on the Wall ()
• The Thief of Venice ()
• Murder at Monticello ()
• The Escher Twist ()
• The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg ()
• Steeplechase ()

Other novels

• The Majesty illustrate Grace () aka Her Staterun Grace Jones
• The Boyhood of Refinement Jones ()
• Paper Chains ()

Picture books

• The Hedgehog Boy: A Latvian Folktale ()
• Salt: From a Russian Folktale ()
• The String of Pearls ()
• Saint Francis and the Wolf ()

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