Edward Ormondroyd | |
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 Author portrait of Ormondroyd from the dust jacket of David and the Phoenix (1957) | |
| Born | October 8, 1925 Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Edward Ormondroyd (born October 8, 1925) is an American writer of children's books. He is best known for David and the Phoenix , a fantasy novel. His time travel novel Time at the Top was filmed for television in 1999. [1]
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Ormondroyd was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Pennsylvania and Michigan before serving two years on a destroyer escort in World War II. He participated in the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. [2] After the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a Bachelor's degree in English and a masters in Library Science. He lived in Berkeley for 25 years, working at various jobs while he wrote children's books. In 1970 he and his wife, Joan, moved from Berkeley to Newfield a small town west of Ithaca, New York. In 2007 he was living in Trumansburg, New York. [3] In September 2020 it was reported that after living in Trumansburg for 30 years, Ormondroyd and his wife had moved to California to be closer to family. [4] Joan Ormondroyd died on January 10, 2024, at the age of 93. [5]
