{"id":2820,"date":"2015-03-31T22:08:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2015-03-31T22:08:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:08:43","slug":"tunis-edwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/tunis-edwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunis, Edwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2822\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edwin-Tunis.jpg\" alt=\"Edwin Tunis\" width=\"140\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edwin-Tunis.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edwin-Tunis-150x199.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2823 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_front.jpg\" alt=\"Frontier Living\" width=\"120\" height=\"163\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2824 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_coln.jpg\" alt=\"Colonial Living\" width=\"120\" height=\"155\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2825 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_tavrn.jpg\" alt=\"Tavern at the Ferry\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">Edwin Tunis, author and artist, was born on December 8th, 1897. He was born in Cold Spring Harbor, New York and brought up in North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware, developing a lifelong passion for American history and culture. He studied at the Maryland Institute of Art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">He is known for his handsome social histories, his work distinguished by simple and elegant black and white drawings. <i class=\"text10pt\">Frontier Living<\/i>, which tracks the manners and customs of American frontier life from the Revolutionary war through the 19th century migrations, was awarded a Newbery Honor in 1961. <i>The\u00a0Young United States (1783-1830)<\/i>, published in 1969, was nominated for a National Book Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">Tunis died in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Karen Ritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin Tunis, author and artist, was born on December 8th, 1897. He was born in Cold Spring Harbor, New York and brought up in North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware, developing a lifelong passion for American history and culture. He studied at the Maryland Institute of Art. 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