Edward Ormondroyd
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Edward Ormondroyd (born 1925) is an American author of children's books. He is best known for David and the Phoenix, a fantasy novel. His time travel novel Time at the Top was filmed for television in 1999.[1]
Ormondroyd was born Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania and grew up in Pennsylvania and Michigan before serving two years on a destroyer escort in World War II.[2] After the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a Bachelor's degree in English and a masters in Library Science. In 1970 he moved from Berkeley to Newfield, a small town west of Ithaca, New York. He currently lives in Trumansburg, New York, just north of Ithaca.[3]
[edit] Works
In order of publication:[4]
- David and the Phoenix 1957
- The Tale of Alain 1960
- Time at the Top 1963
- Jonathan Frederick Aloysius Brown 1964
- Theodore 1966
- Michael, the Upstairs Dog 1967
- Broderick 1969
- Theodore's Rival 1971
- Castaways on Long Ago 1973
- Imagination Greene 1973
- All in Good Time 1975
- Johnny Castleseed 1985
[edit] References
- ^ Time at the Top at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Ormondroyd, Edward (1982). Time at the Top. Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-20960-4.
- ^ "Edward Ormondroyd". Purple House Press. http://www.purplehousepress.com/Ormondroyd.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
- ^ "Edward Ormondroyd". Loganberry Press. http://www.loganberrybooks.com/most-ormondroyd.html. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
