Richard Peck (1934-2018)

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May 24, 2018 | Filed in Articles & Opinion

We were very saddened to hear from Roger about the death of Richard Peck late last night.

We were very saddened to hear from Roger about the death of Richard Peck late last night. Winner of the Newbery Medal (in 2001 for A Year Down Yonder), the Margaret A. Edwards Award "for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature," the Scott O'Dell Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award, and many others, he was also a frequent Horn Book contributor. Here are some links by and about one of children's literature's "best men."

Roger Talks with Richard Peck (video edition)

Richard Peck's 2017 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Honor Book speech for The Best Man

“Books to Unite the Digitally Divided Family” by Richard Peck (adapted from his 2011 Horn Book at Simmons colloquium keynote)

“In the Beginning: What Makes a Good Beginning?” by Richard Peck

Richard Peck’s 2007 Zena Sutherland lecture “And Still the Story”

Profile of 2001 Newbery Medal winner Richard Peck by Mark Talbert

From June 1990 School Library Journal: Roger Sutton's interview with Richard Peck, then-winner of the SLJ/YASD Author Achievement Award

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