{"id":977,"date":"2014-09-26T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=977"},"modified":"2014-10-22T06:11:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:11:11","slug":"anderson-hans-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/anderson-hans-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson, Hans Christian"},"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 size-full wp-image-1074\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dr_hca.jpg\" alt=\"dr_hca\" width=\"140\" height=\"160\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1075\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bk_match.jpg\" alt=\"bk_match\" width=\"140\" height=\"128\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1076\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bk_merm.jpg\" alt=\"bk_merm\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1077\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bk_thum.jpg\" alt=\"bk_thum\" width=\"120\" height=\"151\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>There are probably few children alive today who have not heard of <i>The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes<\/i> or <i class=\"text10\">The Little Mermaid<\/i>. Hans Christian Andersen brought these and 350 other stories to life in his desire to make people laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Born into a poor family on April 2, 1805, Hans Christian Anderson was close to his shoemaker father.\u00a0Every day at 2:00 pm they would read together.\u00a0That made his father&#8217;s death even more tragic, and he ran away from home three years later at age 14.\u00a0Andersen debuted as a writer in 1822 with <em>Youthful Attempts<\/em> and continued working until 1870 with the publication of his last novel, <em>Lucky Peer.<\/em>\u00a0Andersen died in 1875.<\/p>\n<p>In 1956, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal was created to honor one author and one illustrator every two years for their entire body of work.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen&#8217;s birthday is now celebrated as the International\u00a0Children&#8217;s Book Day, sponsored by the International\u00a0Board on Books for Young People.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Heidi Grosch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are probably few children alive today who have not heard of The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes or The Little Mermaid. 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