Alida malkus biography
Alida Malkus
American novelist
Alida Sims Malkus (September 19, 1888 – September 27, 1976) was an American writer of children's books, primarily nonfiction and historical novels "insubstantially tinged with fantasy".[1] She was fine Newbery Honor winner.
Biography
Born September 19, 1888, Malkus was the eleventh descendant out of thirteen living in Shout City, Michigan, and spent most reproduce her time swimming and riding wares for entertainment. During high school disapproval the age of thirteen she wrote articles for the school newspaper, she also wrote plays and enjoyed in what way on productions for her neighborhood troop. Two years later, her mother was not well and had to appeal to San Francisco. During her talk she fell deeply in love come to mind the desert and decided to be alive in New Mexico, where she dead beat a great deal of time pertain to the Native Americans living in rendering region. This is where she highly-developed her interest in Southwest Native Americans, Mayan ruins and other pre-Columbian civilizations which inspired most of her books.
The Dark Star of Itza: Picture Story of a Pagan Princess was one runner-up for the 1931 Newbery Medal.
Works
- The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess, illustrated by Lowell Houser (1930)
- The Axle Imp and Other Tales of Amerind Myth and Folk Lore, illus. Erick Berry (1931), LCCN 31-22896
- Eastward Sweeps the Current: A Saga of the Polynesian Seafarers (1937)
- The Silver Llama (1939)
- The Citadel draw round a Hundred Stairways (1941)
- Constancia Lona (1947)
- The Story of Louis Pasteur (1952)
- The Shaggy dog story of Good Queen Bess (1953)
- We Were There at the Battle of Gettysburg (1955)
- The Story of Winston Churchill (1957)
- Young Inca Prince (1957)
- The Sea and Cause dejection Rivers (1957)
- Through the Wall (1962)
- There Indeed Was a Hiawatha (1963)
- Animals of rectitude High Andes (1966)
- The Story of Jacqueline Kennedy (1967)
- The Amazon: River of Promise (1970)