Don Lawson (1917–1990)
Författare till The United States in World War I; the story of General John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces
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Don Lawson graduated in Aeronautical Engineering from Bristol. He joined the UK nuclear industry with English Electric, later to become GEC (UK), and worked in design, test, commissioning, and engineering management
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Verk av Don Lawson
The United States in World War I; the story of General John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces (1963) 65 exemplar
The United States in the Vietnam war (The Young people's history of America's wars series) (1980) 21 exemplar
The United States in the Civil War (The Young people's history of America's wars series) (1977) 12 exemplar
America Held Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and the Iran-Contra Affair (Twentieth Century American History Book) (1991) 10 exemplar
The Colonial Wars, Prelude to the American Revolution; The Struggle Between France and Great Britain for Supremacy in… (1972) 8 exemplar
The United States in the Indian Wars (The Young People's History of America's Wars Series) (1950) 4 exemplar
World Topics Year Book 1981: Events of 1980 4 exemplar
The changing face of the Constitution : prohibition, universal suffrage and women's rights, civil rights, and religious… (1979) 2 exemplar
Famous American political families 2 exemplar
POEMS TO GUIDE YOUR LIFE 1 exemplar
Frances Perkins, First Lady of the Cabinet 1 exemplar
Great Air Battles (WWI and WWII) 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Lawson, Donald Elmer (birth name)
- Födelsedag
- 1917-05-20
- Avled
- 1990-01-27
- Begravningsplats
- Mount Vernon Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Iowa, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Dödsort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Utbildning
- Cornell College (BA|1939|Mount Vernon, Iowa, USA)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop - Yrken
- writer
editor - Organisationer
- Compton's Encyclopedia
United Educators, Inc. - Kort biografi
- Donald Elmer Lawson was born on May 20, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois, to Elmer and Christina (Grass) Lawson. He displayed an interest in writing early in life and published stories in his high school and college magazines. Lawson received a B.A. degree from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1939 and attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1939-1940. He served in a counterintelligence unit of the U.S. Army Air Corps in Europe during World War II. Lawson married Beatrice Yates in 1945 and went to work for Compton's Encyclopedia the following year. He stayed with the company for the next twenty-seven years, eventually rising to a vice presidential position.
The challenge of writing clear and dramatic encyclopedia articles drew Lawson toward writing non-fiction books for children. He published his first children's book, Young People in the White House, in 1961, the same year that he sold his first and only adult novel. A natural interest in history, his wartime experiences, and his "personal belief that to achieve peace we must first understand war," all motivated Lawson to write mainly on subjects from American military history. Consequently, he produced The Young People's History of America's Wars, an eleven-volume series covering American military history from colonial wars to Vietnam; two anthologies of pacifist writings; and several other books on military themes. Lawson also wrote and edited works on European and Asian history, modern North Africa, current events, and civics. He produced over forty non-fiction books during his career.
In 1970, Lawson received an honorary Litt.D. from Cornell College in recognition of his accomplishments as a writer and editor. He left Compton's in 1973 to become executive editor for United Educators, Inc. He remained with that organization until his death in 1990.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 44
- Medlemmar
- 394
- Popularitet
- #61,534
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 4
- ISBN
- 56
- Språk
- 1