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Larry Dane Brimner
Larry Dane Brimner (born November 5, 1949) is an American teacher, presenter, and writer of more than 150 children's books. They have ranged from fantasy-style stories for young children to non-fiction books for older children. Many of his books have civil rights themes; his book ''We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin'' won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, in the "older children" category, in 2008. This was followed by ''Birmingham Sunday'', which received the Orbis Pictus Honor Book Award in 2011 from the National Council for Teachers of English and the Eureka! Gold Award from the California Reading Association. His 2011 title, ''Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor'', was given the Carter G. Woodson Book Award (The National Council for the Social Studies) and named a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book (The Association for Library Service to Children/American Librarian Association). More recently, Brimner has turned to the migrant children he once taught with the publication of ''STRIKE! The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights'' (Calkins Creek Books), which received a starred review in ''Kirkus Reviews''.
==Background==
Brimner was born in St. Petersburg, Florida at St. Anthony's Hospital. Quite ill as a child and often teetering on the brink of death, the hospital nuns beseeched his mother to name him, fearing if she didn't he would be destined to an everlasting condemnation. Not a Roman Catholic, his mother didn't understand the urgency. Finally, however, she relented, naming him Larry Dane. When a nun returned later with paperwork that indicated his name had been recorded as Lawrence Dane, his mother—who didn't suffer fools or mince words—gave the nun such a tongue lashing that she retreated out of the room and down the hall. His name recorded to reflect his mother's wishes, he has been Larry Dane ever since and has spent a lifetime explaining that he is no Lawrence.〔 His father was a military officer and Brimner spent much of his childhood on Kodiak Island in Alaska. There was no television and only sporadic radio, and so his parents read to him a lot. By the age of four, he was living in a rural suburb of San Diego, California, where his father had been reassigned to command a ship. Brimner promptly entered a momentary life of crime when he and a neighbor boy stole some apples from the orchard next door. Trouble and a spanking followed, and he decided crime was not for him.〔 He attended San Diego State University, graduating in 1971 with a B.A. degree in British Literature. He earned an M.A. degree from San Diego State University in 1981. From 1974 to 1984, he was a writing and composition teacher at El Centro Union High School in El Centro, California, a desert farming community east of San Diego. He then went on to lecture at San Diego State University from 1984 to 1992 〔 in the College of Education while pursuing a doctorate degree, before deciding to turn his attention to writing full-time. He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1985. When he isn't at his desk writing or in the field researching, he often visits schools to encourage and motivate young people to discover the sheer wonder waiting between a book's covers. He has been a visiting author or an author-in-residence at schools on three continents. He also speaks at conferences of educators or of his fellow writers.
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