Robert J. Burch
Robert J. Burch | |
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| Born | June 25, 1925 Fayette County, Georgia, US |
| Died | December 25, 2007 (aged 82) Fayette County, Georgia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1960–2007 |
| Genre | Children's literature, realist young-adult novels, historical fiction |
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| Notable awards | Phoenix Award 1986 |
Robert J. Burch (June 25, 1925 – December 25, 2007) was an American writer of 19 children's books whose readers are "usually young adolescents".[1] Many of his stories are based on his childhood experiences in rural Georgia during the Great Depression.[2]
He was born in Fayette County, Georgia, and spent the majority of his life there. Robert J. Burch Elementary School in Tyrone is named for him.[2] In 1943 he joined the army.
Career[edit]
Burch began writing in New York City in the early 1960s.
According to Dictionary of Literary Biography, his best books feature "realistic details of country and small-town life in middle and northern Georgia" during the Great Depression, the setting of his own childhood.[1] "His books are infused with his genial, optimistic view of life while maintaining a realistic, nonsentimental, serious, and moralistic approach."[1]
Awards[edit]
Burch and Queenie Peavy won the second annual Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1986, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.[3] Burch received four Georgia Children's Book Awards and in 2007 the inaugural W. Porter Kellam Lifetime Achievement Award (after a University of Georgia Library director) for outstanding contributions to literary life in Georgia.[2] In 2009, Burch was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.[4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Robert J(oseph) Burch Biography". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Reprint at BookRags (bookrags.com). Purchase required; opening lines retrieved 2013-03-02.
- ^ a b c "UGA announces Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductees" Archived 2012-05-07 at the Wayback Machine. January 20, 2009. Franklin News. The University of Georgia. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
- ^ "Phoenix Award Brochure 2012"[permanent dead link]. Children's Literature Association. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
See also the current homepage, "Phoenix Award" Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. - ^ "Robert Burch". Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- "Fayette's noted author Robert Burch dies at 82". Archived from the original on August 24, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). Trey Alverson. Fayette County News. December 27, 2007. Nominally archived 2007-08-24[!]. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
External links[edit]
- Robert Burch at Library of Congress Authorities — with 27 catalog records
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