Dorothy Sterling

Dorothy Sterling
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Born	November 23, 1913 New York City, NY
Occupation	Writer and journalist

Dorothy Sterling born November 23, 1913 is a Jewish-American writer and historian. She was born and grew up in New York City, attended Wellesley College and graduated from Barnard College in 1934. After college, she worked as a journalist and writer in New York City for several years. In 1937 she married Philip Sterling, also a writer. In the 1940s she worked for Life Magazine for 8 years. Her books are mainly historical works for children on the origins of the womens' and anti-slavery movements, civil rights, segregation, mystery, and nature. Sterling is the author of more than 30 books, including:

Works

Nature

(1951) Sophie and Her Puppies

(1955) The story of mosses, ferns, and mushrooms

(1966) Fall is Here!

(1967) The Outer Lands Natural History Guide to Cape Cod & Islands by Dorothy Sterling and Winifred Lubell

Mystery

(1958) The Silver Spoon Mystery by Dorothy Sterling

(1960) Secret of the old post-box

(1971) Mystery of the Empty House (Org. Secret of the Old Post Box) by Dorothy Sterling and Jane Goldsborough

Civil Rights

(1953) United Nations, N. Y.

(1954) Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman

(1963) Forever free: The story of the Emancipation Proclamation

(1964) Lucretia Mott

(1965) Lift Every Voice: The Lives of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell and James Weldon Johnson

(1969) Tear Down the Walls!: A History of the American Civil Rights Movement

(1978) Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls

(1984) We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

(1994) The Trouble They Seen: Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans

(1994) Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelly and the Politics of Antislavery

(1996) The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany 1812-1885

(1998) Speak Out in Thunder Tones

Autobiography

(2005) Close to My Heart: An Autobiography