Talk:John Rowe Townsend

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Starting Cleanup and removed "no cite" tag edit

Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Started clean up by adding information, some structure and a few references. Lots more to do. Removed "no cite" tag --Plad2 (talk) 21:12, 2 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Here are some. I anticipate a full obituary in The Guardian soon.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature: John Rowe Townsend Answers.com reprint
Oxford Reference[1]
Children's Literature New England, Inc. History

- founded 1987 by Townsend and his wife Jill Paton Walsh among others

- co-founder Gregory Maguire (GM at HarperCollins) is the named source for our Horn Book death notice

- Townsend and Walsh participated in the latest Symposium covered here, 2011-10-29

Children's Literature Network Birthday Bio
Green Bay Publications, evidently one of his publishers[2]
The Guardian 2003-06-13, by JRT, letter of complaint about cut in his guaranteed annuity[3]
The Observer 2010-10-23, by Townsend's wife Jill Paton Walsh, with 1992 photo of Townsend and Walsh[4]
sweb.cz Children's Literature - Writers (directory), shows a page for Walsh as well as JRT (in English)

--P64 (talk) 17:02, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award list of winners and honors, 1967-, Townsend 1970 and Walsh 1976 won the Fiction award, no Honor Books (runners-up)

--P64 (talk) 17:17, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

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