Background
Clare Huchet was born in Geneva, Switzerland and grew up in France or Geneva.
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Claire Bishop
Edit ProfileLibrarian writer children"s writer poet
Education
She attended the Sorbonne and started the first children"s library in France.
Career
After residing in New York for 50 years Bishop returned to France and died in Paris in 1993. "Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
"Those who marry to escape something usually find something else.".
Achievements
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She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, Pancakes-Paris (1947) and All Alone (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten (1952). Her first English-language children"s book became a classic: The Five Chinese Brothers, illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.
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Quotations:
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
"Those who marry to escape something usually find something else.".
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Born
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Died
March 13, 1993 (aged 94) -
Nationality
France