Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Broché)

Biographie de Robert C. O'Brien

ROBERT O'BRIEN was the pseudonym of Robert Leslie Conly. He was born in New York City in 1918 and intended to become a professional pianist. But during the summer vacations when he was a student, he worked in a camp for boys and learned about storytelling — telling stories in the dark proved the best way of learning what kinds of stories children like. When he finished high school he had a variety of jobs and then began to write feelance stories, poems and essays.
He was married with four children and was an editor of the National Geographic Magazine in Washington DC until his death in 1973. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a winner of the American Library Association's Newbery Medal.