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Russell A. Freedman (born October 11, 1929 in San Francisco) is an American biographer and the author of nearly 50 books for young people. He may be known best for winning the 1988 Newbery Medal with his work ''Lincoln: A Photobiography''.〔 ==Biography== Books were an important part of Freedman's life. His father worked for a company, and his mother worked in a bookstore. He attended college first at San Jose State University and then University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with a degree in English Literature. After college, Freedman was drafted into the armed forces and served in the Korean War, for the United States. He now has family living in Alabama, where his sister's family settled to in 1978. Later, Freedman worked as a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in San Francisco until the mid-1950s, when he took an advertising job in Manhattan. It was during this time that Freedman wrote his first novel after reading an article about a blind teenage boy who invented a Braille typewriter. The book, ''Teenagers Who Made History'', was published in 1961. After its publication, Freedman quit his job and became a full-time writer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ric.edu/astal/authors/russellfreedman.html )〕 As a writer of children's nonfiction, Freedman is often noted for his thorough research, and was praised for his "meticulous integration of words and images" Freedman currently lives in New York City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Russell Freedman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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