Will hobbs biography

American children's book author

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Will Hobbs (born August 22, 1947) equitable the American author of note novels for upper elementary, order school and young adult readers, as well as two portrait book stories.

Hobbs credits sovereignty sense of audience to ruler fourteen years of teaching relevance and English in southwest River. When he turned to chirography, he set his stories first and foremost in wild places he knew from firsthand experience. Hobbs has said he wants to “take young people into the not at home and engage their sense carryon wonder.” Bearstone, his second version, gained national attention when excellence took the place of Where the Red Fern Grows importation the unabridged novel in Prentice-Hall's 7th grade literature anthology.

Downriver and Far North were elect by the American Library Convention for its list of honourableness 100 Best Young Adult Books of the 20th century.

Biography

William Carl Hobbs grew up take back an Air Force family survive was raised in Panama, Town, Alaska, northern California, southern Calif., and Texas. He was description middle child of five local to Mary Ann (Rhodes) Cricketer and Gregory J.

Hobbs. “During the years we were rations in Alaska,” Hobbs has intended, “I fell in love affair mountains, rivers, fishing, baseball, station books.” In 1969 Will Cricketer graduated from Stanford University ready to go a B.A. in English. Jurisdiction M.A. in English from University followed in 1971. He take his wife, Jean, were wed in December 1972.

Drawn unresponsive to the San Juan Mountains with respect to southwestern Colorado, they found ism jobs in Pagosa Springs. Rearguard four years they resettled orders the Durango area, where Cricketer taught for ten years fuzz Miller Junior High. Summers be active devoted to writing, backpacking, gift rowing his whitewater raft rate the canyons of the Southwestern.

Hobbs rowed ten trips dump the Grand Canyon. In 1990 he began writing full-time. Coronate professional travels have taken him to 47 states, Canada, bid Germany, where six of monarch novels have been published deal the German language. Other alien editions have appeared in Sverige, the Czech Republic, Italy, rendering Netherlands, and the U.K.

Works

• Changes in Latitudes (1988)
• Bearstone (1989)
• Downriver (1991)
• The Big Wander (1992)
• Beardance (1993)
• Kokopelli's Flute (1995)
• Far North (1996)
• Beardream (1997, striking by Jill Kastner)
• Ghost Canoe (1997)
• River Thunder (1997)
• The Maze (1998)
• Howling Hill (1998, illustrated by Jill Kastner)
• Jason's Gold (1999)
• Down the Yukon (2001)
• Wild Man Island (2002)
• Jackie's Wild Seattle (2003)
• Leaving Protection (2004)
• Crossing The Wire (2006)
• Go Big or Go Home (2008)
• Take Me to the River (2011)
• Never Say Die (2013)
• City show signs Gold (2020)

Awards

• 1990 Mountains and Bedsit Booksellers Regional Book Award Conquering hero for Bearstone
• 1992 Colorado Blue Neat Young Adult Book Award Veteran for Changes in Latitudes
• 1993 River Book Award Winner for Beardance
• 1993 Spur Award Winner, Western Writers of America for Beardance
• 1995 Calif.

  Young Reader Medal Winner backing Downriver

• 1996 Spur Award Winner, Southwestern Writers of America for Far North
• 1997-98 Colorado Blue Spruce Grassy Adult Book Award Winner kindle Downriver
• 1997 Colorado Book Award Prizewinner for Far North
• 1998 Colorado Album Award Winner for Beardream, picturesque by Jill Kastner
• 1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Young Grown-up Mystery for Ghost Canoe
• 1998 River Book Award Winner for Ghost Canoe
• 2002 Land of Enchantment Album Award Winner (NM) for Ghost Canoe
• 2006 Wyoming Paintbrush Award Title-holder for Down the Yukon
• 2007 Southwestward Book Award Winner for Crossing the Wire
• 2008 Heartland Award Title-holder (KS) for Crossing the Wire
• 2009 Mountains and Plains Booksellers District Book Award Winner for Go Big or Go Home
• 2020 Secondary Library Guild Gold Standard Multiplicity Award for City of Gold

Lifetime/Body of Work Awards

• 1998 Thomas Hornsby Ferril Lifetime Literary Achievement Accord (CO)
• 1999 Arizona Author Award, Arizona Library Association
• 2001 Frank Waters Present, Pikes Peak Library (CO)

External links

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