Latrobe Carroll

Background

Latrobe Carroll was born on January 5, 1894, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Education

Latrobe graduated from Harvard University in 1918.

Career

Carroll began his career as a member of the editorial staff at the Century Company, New York City, in 1919, and was a staff writer for the Foreign Press Service, New York, in 1920. He moved to Liberty Magazine in 1924 as a member of the editorial staff, a position he retained until he left in 1934 to pursue his career as a free-lance writer. His first book, co-written with his wife, Ruth Carroll, was Luck of the Roll and Go (1935). Altogether the couple wrote at least twenty books, all targeted for the juvenile market, including their last book, Hullabaloo, the Elephant Dog (1975).

Achievements

• Latrobe Carroll received Juvenile Awards from the American Association of University Women for his children's books Peanut (1953) and Digby the Only Dog (1955).

Works

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  • Runaway Pony, Runaway Dog

    (A pony named Sassy and a dog named Tough Enough escape fr...)

    1963
  • The Managing Hen and the Floppy Hound

    (The young hound, considered worthless by the farm animals...)

    1972
  • Tough Enough

    (Tough Enough was Beanie Tatum's dog. He was little but he...)

    1954
  • Salt and Pepper 1952
  • The Picnic Bear 1966
  • School in the Sky 1945
  • Peanut 1951
  • The flying house 1946
  • Bumble Pup 1968
  • Digby the Only Dog 1955
  • Danny and the Poi Pip 1965
  • Flight of the Silver Bird 1939

Membership

Carroll was a member of the Authors League of America, Friends of the Library, and the Harvard Club of Western North Carolina.

Interests

• hiking, travel and reading

Connections

Latrobe Carroll married Ruth Robinson on January 24, 1928.

Father:

Archer Latrobe Carroll

Mother:

Frances Hamilton Gamble

Spouse:

Ruth Crombie Robinson Carroll

References

• Contemporary Authors A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields
  2008