{"id":1750,"date":"2014-10-27T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2014-10-27T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:20:25","slug":"forbes-esther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/forbes-esther\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes, Esther"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"Esther<\/td>\n\"Johnny<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"America's<\/td>\n\"Paul<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Esther Forbes, born on June 28, 1891, was well-known in her day as an author of historical novels for adults. In fact, she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1942 for Paul Revere and the World He Lived In<\/i>. She was thought to be one of the foremost Revere scholars of her time. During her research for that book, she discovered that it was a horse boy who brought word to Paul Revere that the British were ready to March. That was Forbes’ inspiration for Johnny Tremain<\/i>, the book which would win the Newbery Medal in 1943.<\/p>\n

In 1912, Esther went to live with her sister Cornelia, who was teaching at the University of Wisconsin. It was there that she met a writing mentor who encouraged her to submit her short story, ‘Breakneck Hill,” to the Grinnell Review<\/em>. That story won the O. Henry Prize for Short Stories in 1915.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ms. Forbes moved back to Massachusetts in 1918, working for the publisher Houghton Mifflin in Boston, reading unsolicited manuscripts. Her first novel was published in 1926, O Genteel Lady!,<\/em> and it was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club as its second monthly selection.<\/p>\n

A resident of Worcester, Massachusetts when she died on August 12,\u00a01967, her family still lives in her house \u2014 an historical treasure of one of America’s best-loved authors for children.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Esther Forbes, born on June 28, 1891, was well-known in her day as an author of historical novels for adults. In fact, she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1942 for Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. She was thought to be one of the foremost Revere scholars of her time. During her research … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[789],"tags":[542,918,534,915,432,408,912,916,920,914,357,460,917,913,865,919,543],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f","tag-author","tag-book-of-the-month-club-selection","tag-boston","tag-breakneck-hill","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-esther-forbes","tag-grinnell-review","tag-houghton-mifflin","tag-johnny-tremain","tag-massachusetts","tag-newbery-medal","tag-o-henry-prize-for-short-stories","tag-paul-revere-and-the-world-he-lived-in","tag-pulitzer-prize","tag-worcester","tag-writer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-se","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}