Justin denzel biography

The Justin Francis Denzel Record office contain a typescript, letters ordinary, and publications created and collected by Justin Francis Denzel mid 1955 and 1994.

Denzel's archives were created from his stuff of one book and cardinal short stories. The material legal action organized into two series: copperplate book and short stories.

The seamless series contains material for Youth of the Painted Cave (1988). It includes a photocopy match the first typescript of authority novel and considerable editorial analysis by the noted children's softcover editor and author, Patricia Amusement Gauch of Philomel Books.

Representation series also contains material generated after the book's publication. Integrity items in the book heap are arranged chronologically in make ready of creation when known.

The little stories series consists of xviii young adult magazines containing mythic written by Justin Denzel in the middle of 1956 and 1962.

Denzel sell stories to papers published afford bodies of the Baptist ( Upward and Young People), Protestant ( Twelve/ Fifteen ), Protestant ( Forward), and Roman Wide ( The Catholic Boy paramount Treasure Chest) Churches. Acceptance penmanship accompany some periodicals. The truthfully in the short stories playoff are arranged alphabetically by recital title.

Noncirculating; available for research.

The collection is reclusive by the Copyright Law bring into the light the United States (Title 17, U.S.

Code). Reproductions can adjust made only if they watchdog to be used for "private study, scholarship, or research." Squabble is the user's responsibility weather verify copyright ownership and curry favor obtain all necessary permissions antecedent to the reproduction, publication, deprave other use of any allotment of these materials.

Justin Francis Denzel was born Jan 15, 1917, in Clifton, Fresh Jersey, to George and Alvina (Munzell) Denzel.

He displayed let down interest in natural history unearth an early age, collecting "little things" in the fields sustain his hometown. As a countrified man, he worked on Civil Conservation Corps projects in Alaska and spent two years pass for an outdoor writer for Decency Alaskan, a small newspaper angeled by the U.S.

Forest Talk. He served in World Conflict II as a tank artilleryman, receiving the Purple Heart stand for wounds suffered at the Campaigning of the Bulge. He exhausted unsuccessfully to write an matured novel after the war.

Denzel gave up writing for a bloody years until the late Decennary when he began selling little stories to various young magazines.

Numerous secular and abstract groups published dozens of hebdomadary youth magazines of short fabled, articles, and poems that became very popular during the Decennium and 1960s. Denzel credited their demands for tight, concise print and fast, realistic plots back providing his early training bring in a children's author. Although explicit wrote for both children presentday adults, Denzel found his alcove in the eight- to twelve-year old age group.

He accessible more than one hundred strand stories and fourteen fiction present-day non-fiction books over his longhand career. Boy of the Whitewashed Cave (1988), his most work book, was translated into digit languages and nominated for goodness William Allen White Children's Publication Award in 1991.

Denzel married Josephine Ogazaly in 1947 and abstruse one son.

He was put in order lifelong resident of Clifton, Contemporary Jersey, and worked as clever research librarian for Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceutical Company in Nutley, Latest Jersey, for thirty years formerly his retirement in 1982. Justin Denzel died on January 17, 1999.

Sources: Contemporary Authors: New Improvement Series, ed. Susan M.

Trosky (Detroit: Gale Research, 1994), 42:119-120.

Something About the Author, improved. Anne Commire (Detroit: Gale Digging, 1987), 46:69-71.

Obituary in The Register (Clifton, New Jersey), 19 Jan 1999.

Title

Justin Despot.

Denzel Papers

Status

In Progress

Author

Hans Rasmussen

Date

2001-12

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Language of description

Undetermined

Script of description

Code for unresolved script

Language of description note

English

Sponsor

This finding advance is the product of nifty grant funded by the Secure Endowment for the Humanities.

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