1. Robin McKown was an American writer of young adult literature, chiefly biography and fiction.
11 Facts About Robin McKown
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Robin McKown received the Josette Frank Award for Janine in 1960.
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Robin McKown's parents were Anna and George Samuel Clason, author and cofounder of the Clason Map Company, who settled in Denver in 1900.
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Robin McKown died in August 1975 in Beaver Dams, New York.
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Robin McKown worked in both sales promotion and radio scriptwriting and was the author of a column for the Book-of-the-Month Club.
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Robin McKown wrote books for young adults, traveling throughout the United States and to the Congo, South Africa, Peru, Ireland, Italy, Madagasgar, and North Africa for research.
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Robin McKown was the chairman of the organization known at the Friends of Widows and Orphans of the French Resistance following the war.
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The organization was headquartered in New York City, where Robin McKown lived at the time.
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Robin McKown's published works include biographies of Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin and Marie Curie and more than 40 works for young adults.
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Robin McKown's work was compared to that of Horatio Alger known for his contribution to young adult literature.
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Robin McKown was noted for her book Giant of the Atom: Ernest Rutherford written in a "delightful humorous manner" that did not require a comprehensive background in physics to understand.