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Nina Bawden

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Name: Nina (Mary Mabey) Bawden
Variant Name: Nina Bawden, Nina Mary Mabey Bawden, Nina Mary (Mabey) Kark, Nina Mary Kark, Nina Mary Mabey Kark, Nina (Mary) Bawden, Mary Mabey, Nina Mary Bawden, Nina Mary Mabey
Birth Date: January 19, 1925
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Female

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Biography of Nina (Mary Mabey) Bawden
5,160 words, approx. 17 pages
In Nina Bawden's The Birds on the Trees (1970) a young man named Toby, who is trying to cope with life rather unsuccessfully, states, "Families are terrible"--a perception of family life that defines much of Bawden's work for children. Her child...
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Biography of Nina (Mary Mabey) Bawden
4,821 words, approx. 16 pages
During a long writing career, Nina Bawden has produced a large and significant body of novels for adults, children, and juveniles. Unlike some writers who “move up” from young people's fiction to more mainstream books for adults, she has...
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Biography of Nina (Mary Mabey) Bawden
4,298 words, approx. 14 pages
Nina Bawden is perhaps best known for her incisive satirical inquiry into the family relationships of the educated middle class. Less well-known is the fact that she began her career as a writer of two elegantly plotted murder stories, and then worked...


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Nina Bawden Information
375 words, approx. 1 pages
Nina Bawden (born January 19, 1925, London) is a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine. When World War II broke out she spent the school holidays at a farm in Shropshire along with her mother...


News and Journals
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The Horn Book Magazine
Remembering Dorothy.(Dorothy Briley)(Nina Bawden address)(Transcript)
03/01/2000: 4,036 words, approx. 14 pages
BEGINNING THIS YEAR, the Horn Book will publish the Dorothy Briley Lecture, a biennial lecture series sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) to commemorate and honor Dorothy Briley's dedication to the field of international children's literature. We...
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The Independent - London
Disaster at Potters Bar: Casualties: Author Nina Bawden hurt, and BBC executive husband killed
05/12/2002: 682 words, approx. 2 pages
Readers of Carrie's War, the best-known work by the acclaimed children's author Nina Bawden, are told that she likes travelling to "quite dangerous places". But the journey that proved the most dangerous of all began not in some far-flung corner of the globe but...
 


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