2024 anniversaries

[Lenona]

100th anniversaries:


Jan: James Vance Marshall (author of "Walkabout")
Jan: Mike Butterworth (creator of "Trigan Empire" SF comic)
Jan: Dennis Lynds (aka Michael Collins, mystery writer)
Jan: Lloyd Alexander ("Prydain Chronicles")
Feb: Pat Lauber ("Clarence the TV Dog")
Feb: John Peterson ("Toby's Treasure Hunt")
March: Byrd Baylor ("Amigo")
May: Gerda Klein ("One Survivor Remembers")
June: Leonard Fisher (Pulitzer-winning painter)
July: Thomas Berger
July: William Gass
Aug: James Baldwin
Aug: Janet Frame
Sept: Joan Aiken (Carnegie nominee)
Sept: Grace Metalious ("Peyton Place")
Sept: Jolly Roger Bradfield ("Pickle-Chiffon Pie")
Sept: Bernard Waber
Sept: James Berry (poet & Coretta Scott King Medalist)
Sept: Truman Capote
Oct: Donald J. Sobol ("Encyclopedia Brown")
Oct: Guadalupe Rivera Marin
Dec: Nicolas Sidjakov (Caldecott Medalist)


80th anniversary
Aug: Paula Danziger ("The Cat Ate My Gymsuit")


50th death anniversaries
July: Erich Kastner ("Emil & the Detectives" & "The Parent Trap")
Sept: Lois Lenski (Newbery Medalist: "Strawberry Girl")

[Lenona]

Erich Kastner also wrote "The Parent Trap."

Btw, I somehow slipped up regarding John Peterson (1924-2002) - he was
FAR better known for his series about...

"The Littles."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littles

He wrote 16 books in the series. It was turned into an animated series
in the 1980s.

(And given that the first book was published in 1967, it's a little
surprising how brave Lucy is, being a younger sister and all.)

He also wrote "The Secret Hide-Out" in 1965. There was a sequel.