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Claire Huchet Bishop
AuthorBooks · Second hand1898-1993
Claire Huchet Bishop was a Swiss children's writer and librarian. She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, Pancakes-Paris (1947) and All Alone (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic: The Five Chinese Brothers, illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.
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Birth
1898
Death
1993
First book
1938
Years writing
88
Claire Huchet Bishop was born in Geneva and had a distinguished career as both a writer and a librarian.
Her most globally recognized work is the children's classic The Five Chinese Brothers.
Throughout her career, she published a total of 29 works primarily aimed at young readers.
Her writing was deeply influenced by her professional experience as a librarian and her passion for children's literature.
Although born in Switzerland, her literary legacy remains a cornerstone of American children's literature.