Albert Marrin

Albert Marrin
Born	(1936-07-24) July 24, 1936 (age 89) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Historian professor author
Alma mater	City College of New York Yeshiva University Columbia University
Notable awards	National Humanities Medal (2008)
Website
albertmarrinauthor.com

Albert Marrin (born July 24, 1936) is an American historian, professor of history and author of more than forty juvenile non-fiction books.

Life

He was born in New York City. He graduated from City College of New York, Yeshiva University and Columbia University. He taught in the public schools New York City. He is chairman of the history department at Yeshiva University. ^[1]

He lives with his wife in the Bronx, New York. ^[2]

Awards

• 2008 National Humanities Medal
• 2001 Carter G. Woodson Book Award ^[3]
• Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
• James Madison Book Award
• Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award.

Work

• The Church of England in the first world war, Columbia University., 1968
• Sir Norman Angell, Twayne Publishers, 1979, ISBN   978-0-8057-7725-3
• The airman's war: World War II in the sky, Atheneum, 1982, ISBN   978-0-689-30907-6
• Overlord: D-Day and the invasion of Europe, Atheneum, 1982, ISBN   978-0-689-30931-1
• Victory in the Pacific, Atheneum, 1983
• The sea rovers: pirates, privateers, and buccaneers, Atheneum, 1984, ISBN   978-0-689-31029-4
• War clouds in the West: Indians & cavalrymen, 1860-1890, Atheneum, 1984, ISBN   978-0-689-31066-9
• The secret armies: spies, counterspies, and saboteurs in World War II, Atheneum, 1985, ISBN   978-0-689-31165-9
• 1812, the war nobody won, Atheneum, 1985, ISBN   978-0-689-31075-1
• Aztecs and Spaniards: Cortés and the conquest of Mexico, Atheneum, 1986, ISBN   978-0-689-31176-5
• The Yanks are coming: the United States in the first World War, Atheneum, 1986, ISBN   978-0-689-31209-0
• Hitler, Viking Kestrel, 1987, ISBN   978-0-670-81546-3
• Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, 1690-1760, Atheneum, 1987, ISBN   978-0-689-31313-4
• The war for independence: the story of the American Revolution, Atheneum, 1988, ISBN   978-0-689-31390-5
• Inca & Spaniard: Pizarro and the conquest of Peru, Atheneum, 1989, ISBN   978-0-689-31481-0
• Mao Tse-tung and his China, Viking Kestrel, 1989, ISBN   978-0-670-82940-8
• The Spanish–American War, Atheneum, 1991, ISBN   978-0-689-31663-0
• America and Vietnam: the elephant and the tiger, Viking, 1992, ISBN   978-0-670-84063-2
• Stalin Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN   978-0-14-032605-5
• Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars, Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN   978-0-14-036479-8
• Cowboys, Indians, and gunfighters: the story of the cattle kingdom, Atheneum, 1993, ISBN   978-0-689-31774-3
• Virginia's general: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War, Atheneum, 1994, ISBN   978-0-689-31838-2
• Unconditional surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War, Atheneum, 1994, ISBN   978-0-689-31837-5
• The sea king: Sir Francis Drake and his times, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995, ISBN   978-0-689-31887-0
• Plains warrior: Chief Quanah Parker and the Comanches, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996, ISBN   978-0-689-80081-8
• Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, Dutton Children's Books, 1997, ISBN   978-0-525-45822-7
• Empires lost and won: the Spanish heritage in the Southwest, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997, ISBN   978-0-689-80414-4
• Terror of the Spanish Main: Sir Henry Morgan and his buccaneers, Dutton Children's Books, 1999, ISBN   978-0-525-45942-2
• Sitting Bull and his world, Dutton Children's Books, 2000, ISBN   978-0-525-45944-6
• George Washington and the founding of a nation, Dutton Children's Books, 2001, ISBN   978-0-525-46481-5
• Dr. Jenner and the speckled monster: the search for the smallpox vaccine, Dutton Children's Books, 2002, ISBN   978-0-525-46922-3
• Secrets from the rocks: dinosaur hunting with Roy Chapman Andrews, Illustrator Albert Marrin, Dutton Children's Books, 2002, ISBN   978-0-525-46743-4
• Old Hickory: Andrew Jackson and the American People, Dutton Children's Books, 2004, ISBN   978-0-525-47293-3
• Oh, Rats!: the story of rats and people, Illustrator C. B. Mordan, Dutton Children's Books, 2006, ISBN   978-0-525-47762-4
• Saving the Buffalo, Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006, ISBN   978-0-439-71854-7
• Commander and Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, 2007
• The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America, Dutton Children's Books, 2008, ISBN   978-0-525-47659-7
• Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl, 2009
• Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and its Legacy, 2011
• Little Monsters: The Creatures That Live on Us and in Us, 2011
• Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives, 2012
• A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery, 2014
• Thomas Paine, Crusader for Liberty: How One Man's Ideas Helped Form a New Nation, 2014
• FDR and the American Crisis, 2015
• Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II, 2016
• Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918, 2018
• A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust, 2019
• A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War, 2021

References

1. "Undergraduate Women 1999-2000 FACULTY". Yeshiva University. Archived from the original on October 27, 2002. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
   - Flora Wyatt; Margaret Coggins; Jane Hunter Imber (1998). Popular nonfiction authors for children: a biographical and thematic guide. Libraries Unlimited. ISBN   978-1-56308-408-9.
2. "Albert Marrin Biography". Scholastic. Archived from the original on February 8, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
3. "Carter G. Woodson Award Winners 1974 to Present". AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club. Retrieved 2024-10-28.

External links

• "Author's website"