Bill Brittain
William E. Brittain (December 16, 1930 – December 16, 2011) was an American writer. He is best known for work set in the fictional New England village of Coven Tree, including The Wish Giver, a Newbery Honor Book.[1]
Brittain was born in Rochester, New York. He decided he wanted to be a 5th-grade teacher, and in addition to teaching, used to read stories in mystery magazines. After some time, he decided he could do as good a job at writing as some of the authors he read; he got coaching on writing from Frederic Dannay of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (in which, along with Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, most of his mystery stories were published). He wrote two serials from 1964 to 1983, as well as other stories, before moving on to the children's books for which he is better known.
Brittain is also the author of the popular book All the Money in the World, which was adapted as a 1983 movie.
Books
Coven Tree series
The Man who Read short stories
Mr. Strang short stories
|
Other
|
References
- ^ "William E. Brittain Obituary". Asheville Citizen-Times. Legacy.com. December 25, 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
External links
- Biographical sketch from Golden Duck Awards
- Bill Brittain at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Bill Brittain at Library of Congress, with 13 library catalog records
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NDL identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NLK identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1930 births
- 2011 deaths
- American children's writers
- American mystery writers
- Newbery Honor winners
- American male novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American male writers
- All stub articles
- American children's writer stubs