Background
North, Sterling was born on November 4, 1906 in Edgerton, Wisconsin, United States. Son of the Lampmaker, 1956.
North, Sterling was born on November 4, 1906 in Edgerton, Wisconsin, United States. Son of the Lampmaker, 1956.
Student of University Chicago.
Reporter, Chicago Daily News, 1929, literature editor, 1933-1943. Literature editor New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1949-1956. Editor The Forge, University of Chicago, 3 years Author: Plowing on Sunday, 1934.
Night Outlasts the Whippoorwill, 1936.
Seven Against the Years, 1939. The Pedro Gorino (with Captain Harry Dean), 1929.
Speak of the Devil (with Clip Boutell), 1945. So Dear to My Heart, 1947 (made into moving picture by Walt Disney).
Reunion on the Wabash, 1952.
The Birthday of Little Jesus, 1952. Abe Lincoln, Log Cabin to Whitehouse, 1956. Son of the Lampmaker, 1956.
George Washington, 1957.
Young Thomas Edison; Thoreau of Walden Pond. Captured by the Mohawks.
Mark Twain and the River. Rascal, 1963 (Dutton Animal-Book, Aurianne, also Dorothy Canfield Fisher awards).
Hurry Spring, 1966; Raccoons Are the Brightest People, 1966.
The Wolfling, 1969. General editor series history books, North Star Books. Contributor to Harper’s Nation, Dial, Poetry, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Yale Review, Readers Digest.
Home: Morristown, New Jersey.
Married Gladys Delores Buchanan, June 23, 1927. Children: David Sterling, Arielle.