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Scott O'Dell worked behind the camera for MGM and Paramount and as a book columnist and editor before becoming a full-time author of adult fiction in 1934. His first YA book, Island of the Blue Dolphins, won the 1961 Newberry. He also won several Newbery Honor Awards, the William Allen White, the Nene, the Jugendbuchpreis (twice), and was the second American to garner the Hans Christian Andersen medal.
Scott O'Dell was originally born Odell Gabriel Scott on May 23, 1898 in Los Angeles, California. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the Army during World War I. Upon returning to California he worked for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Mirror. He released his first novel for adults, Woman of Spain: A Story of Old California, in 1934. He was convinced by his friend, the children's author Maud Lovelace, to turn his manuscript about the legend of "The Lost Woman of San Nicholas Island" into a book for children. Published in 1960, Island of the Blue Dolphins became a worldwide success and went on to win the Newbery Medal and was adapted into a motion picture. He wrote twenty-five novels for children before passing away on October 15, 1989.
American children's author, born in Los Angeles, CA in 1903. He won the Newbery Medal for Island of the blue dolphins in 1961.
Scott O'Dell (1898-1989) was a technical director for Paramount and a cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before becoming a writer of books for young adults and adults. He published his first novel in 1934 and thereafter was engaged primarily in writing. From 1947 to 1955 he was book review editor for the Los Angeles Daily news.
Scott O'Dell was a technical director for Paramount Studios, book columnist for the Los Angeles Mirror, book editor for the Los Angeles Daily News, and a full time writer, beginning in 1934. In addition to receiving several Newbery Honor Awards, O'Dell was awarded the Newbery Medal (1961), the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, the Young People Notable Book Award, two German Juvenile International Awards, the Hawaiian Library Assn. Nene Award, the OMAR award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal (1972).
Scott O’Dell (May 23, 1898-October 15, 1989) was born Odell Gabriel Scott in Los Angeles, Ca. Scott O’Dell married twice, to Jane Rattenbury and to Elizabeth Hall with whom he had two children. O’Dell attended Occidental College in 1919, University of Wisconsin in 1920, Stanford University from 1920-1921, and University of Rome in 1925. He was a member of the Authors Guild.
He formerly worked as a technical director for Paramount and as a cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He also grew citrus fruit and taught a mail-order course in photoplay writing. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force, 1942-1943. In 1934 he published his first novel, Woman of Spain: A Story of Old California, and thereafter he was engaged primarily in writing. From 1947 until 1955 he was book review editor for the Los Angeles Daily News, and he continued to release book-length works for adults. His first novel for teens, Island of the Blue Dolphins, appeared in 1960. He died of prostate cancer in Mount Kisco, N.Y.
Scott O’Dell was originally born Odell Gabriel Scott on May 23, 1898 in Los Angeles, California. His father, Bennett Mason Scott, worked for the Union Pacific Railroad and the family frequently moved throughout Southern California during his childhood. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the Army during World War I. He then attended several universities including Occidental College, University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University. He worked for Paramount Pictures as a cameraman on the 1925 version of Ben Hur, shot in Rome, Italy. He stayed in Rome to study writing at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Upon returning to California he worked for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Mirror. He released his first novel for adults, Woman of Spain: A Story of Old California, in 1934. He finished two more novels and then became the book editor for the Los Angeles Daily News. A typesetter at the paper mistakenly transposed his name and O’Dell liked it so much that he had it legally changed.
He was convinced by his friend, the children’s author Maud Lovelace, to turn his manuscript about the legend of “The Lost Woman of San Nicholas Island” into a book for children. Published in 1960, Island of the Blue Dolphins became a worldwide success and went on to win the Newbery Medal and was adapted into a motion picture. He continued writing historical fiction for children, winning the Newbery Honor Book for his next two novels, The King’s Fifth (1966) and The Black Pearl (1967). In 1981, he established the Scott O’Dell Historical Fiction Award, which recognized outstanding works in historical fiction. He wrote twenty-five novels for children before passing away on October 15, 1989.
Bibliography
Children’s Literature Review, vol. 126.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 52.
Something About the Author, vol. 60.
"Scott O’Dell," Wikipedia, accessed December 19, 2011, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O'Dell.
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