Edward Fenton was born in New York City on the seventh of July, 1917. He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts. He served with the American Field Service and as an ambulance driver in the British Eighth Army in North Africa during World War II. Being well traveled, he spoke at least five languages. Fenton lived mainly in Italy and Greece and was thus considered an "adopted Greek." Together with his wife, Greek psychologist Sophia Harvati, whom he married in 1963, he shared his time between Athens and Galaxidi, a town below Delphi. His writing included works for both children and adults, but his bestknown works are those for young readers, such as The Refugee Summer, which was nominated for the American Book Award, and Phantom of Walkaway Hill, which received the Mystery Writers of America Edgar.....
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