Dorothy Sterling
Dorothy Sterling | |
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Born | Dorothy Dannenberg November 23, 1913 |
Died | December 1, 2008 | (aged 95)
Occupation(s) | Writer and journalist |
Spouse | Philip Sterling |
Children | Anne Fausto-Sterling, Peter Sterling |
Dorothy Sterling (née Dannenberg; November 23, 1913 – December 1, 2008) was an American writer and historian. After college, she worked as a journalist and writer in New York for several years, including work for the Federal Writers' Project.[1]
Biography
Sterling worked for Time from 1936 to 1949 and was then assistant bureau chief in Life's news bureau from 1944 to 1949.[2]
Starting in the 1950s, she authored more than 30 books, mainly non-fiction historical works for children on the origins of the women's and
Personal life
In 1937, she married Philip Sterling (died 1989), also a writer.[1] Her daughter, Anne Fausto-Sterling, is a noted biologist, the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, and is married to playwright Paula Vogel.[3] Her son, Peter Sterling, is a well-known neuroscientist and coiner of the term allostasis.
Sterling belonged to the Communist Party USA in the 1940s. Even after leaving the party, she said socialism was her long-term goal.[4]
In early 1968, Sterling and her husband joined
Bibliography
Nature
- (1951) Sophie and Her Puppies
- (1955) The story of mosses, ferns, and mushrooms
- (1961) Ellen's Blue Jays
- (1961) Caterpillars
- (1966) Fall is Here!
- (1967) The Outer Lands Natural History Guide to Cape Cod & Islands by Dorothy Sterling and Winifred Lubell
Mysteries
- (1952) The Cub Scout Mystery
- (1955) The Brownie Scout Mystery
- (1958) The Silver Spoon Mystery by Dorothy Sterling
- (1960) Secret of the Old Post-Box
- (1971) Mystery of the Empty House (Org. Secret of the Old Post Box) by Dorothy Sterling and Jane Goldsborough
Black history and civil rights
- (1953) United Nations, N. Y.
- (1954) Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
- (1959) Mary Jane
- (1963) Forever Free: The Story of the Emancipation Proclamation
- (1964) Lucretia Mott
- (1965) Lift Every Voice: The Lives of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell and James Weldon Johnson
- (1969) Tear Down the Walls!: A History of the American Civil Rights Movement
- (1978) Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls
- (1984) We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
- (1994) The Trouble They Seen: Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans
- (1994) Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelly and the Politics of Antislavery
- (1996) The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany 1812-1885
- (1998) Speak Out in Thunder Tones
Autobiography
- (2005) Close to My Heart: An Autobiography
Awards
- Inclusion in the 1960-1961 William Allen White Children's Book Award Masterlist of Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls[6]
- 1977 Carter G. Woodson Book Award winner for The Trouble They Seen: Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans[7]
References
- ^ a b Grimes, William (5 December 2008). "Dorothy Sterling, 95, Children's Author, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ a b Sterling, Dorothy (8 February 1984). "Whittaker Chambers: Odd Choice for the Medal of Freedom". New York Times. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ "Paula Vogel, Anne Fausto-Sterling". The New York Times. 2004-09-26. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
- ^ Woo, Elaine (14 December 2008). "Dorothy Sterling, author of African American children's literature, dies at 95". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ "History of War Tax Resistance". Writers and Editors War Tax Protest Names. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ "1960-1961 William Allen White Children's Book Award Masterlist". www.emporia.edu. Emporia State University. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Carter G. Woodson Book Award and Honor Winners: 1977 Award Winner". www.socialstudies.org. National Council for the Social Studies. Retrieved 17 October 2015.