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- 1 2 3 "About Me". Carol Gorman (carolgorman.com). Retrieved 2014-08-17.
"Carol Johnson" is identified by that name in the photo caption from contemporary newspaper coverage of Peter Pan produced at the University of Iowa. The text by Gorman identifies it as her role. - ↑ Carol Gorman website. (where? when?)
"Most writers know when they’re 8 or 10, but it never occurred to me that I could make my living writing books until I grew up and married a writer." Q & A For Kids. - ↑ "Gorman, Carol". ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa (aspace.lib.uiowa.edu). Retrieved December 19, 2022. The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections. With guide to "Carol Gorman Papers".
- ↑ McElmeel, S., Article on Carol Gorman Archived April 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Junior Book Award". www.scasl.net. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ↑ books.google.com accessed 5 August 2012
- ↑ "West Virginia Center for the Book". Archived from the original on September 23, 2011. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
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- ↑ Passaic County Community College
