![]() ![]() Extentħ. "Russell Freedman (1929-)." Something About the Author. In this gripping account of the boyhood, marriage, and young professional life of Abraham Lincoln, award-winning writer Russell Freedman brings to life the. "Russell Freedman, 88, Writer of History for Young Readers, Dies." Obituary. Freedman died in 2018 in New York, where he lived with his husband, filmmaker Evans Chan.īiographical sources: Genzlinger, Neil. He was also awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1998, and a National Humanities Medal in 2007. He is also the recipient of three Newbery Honors, the Sibert Medal, and the Laura. ![]() ![]() His book Lincoln: a Photobiography was awarded the 1988 Newbery Medal. Russell Freedman received the Newbery Medal for LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY. ![]() Many of his early works focused on nature, before he switched to biographies and historical topics. After graduating, he did counterintelligence work during the Korean War and worked as a journalist and publicist before publishing his first book Teenagers Who Made History, in 1961, and becoming a full time writer. Russell Freedman was born in October 1929 in San Francisco, California and attended the University of California Berkeley. ![]()
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