A Restless Spirit

The Story of Robert Frost

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Author:

Bober, Natalie S.

ISBN:

978-0-8050-6075-1

Publication Date:

Sep 1998

Publisher:

Henry Holt & Company

Imprint:

Henry Holt & Company Books For Young Readers

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $23.99

Book Description:

"When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right."

Book Details

Pages:	198
Detailed Subjects:	Literary Criticism / Poetry Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	8 x 10 x 0.44 Inches
Book Weight:	0.968 Pounds

Author Biography

Bober, Natalie S. (Author)

Author, historian, and educator Natalie S. Bober, best known for her biographies of poets, artists, and figures of early American history, died on December 29, 2022. She was 92.

Bober was born Natalie Birnbaum on December 27, 1930 in New York City, the daughter of Samuel, who worked in real estate, and Dolly, an editor, researcher, and indexer. Bober was attending Hunter College when she married Lawrence Bober, a banker, in 1950. She continued her studies, receiving her B.A. from Hunter in 1951, and later earned a M.S. from Hofstra University in 1966.

Her works include Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain (Atheneum, 1988) which garnered critical praise. She also wrote another historical biography: Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution (Atheneum, 1995). That title was named the winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and also won SCBWI¿s Golden Kite Award. In all, she published 11 books for young readers.

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