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Robert Newton Peck

3.6/5 ( ratings)
Born
February 16 1928
From Wikipedia--

Robert Newton Peck is an American author of books for young adults. His titles include Soup and A Day No Pigs Would Die. He claims to have been born on February 17, 1928, in Vermont, but has refused to specify where. Similarly, he claims to have graduated from a high school in Texas, which he has also refused to identify. Some sources state that he was born in Nashville, Tennessee The only reasonably certain Vermont connection is that his father was born in Cornwall.

Peck has written over sixty books including a great book explaining his childhood to becoming a teenager working on the farm called: A Day no Pigs would Die

He was a smart student, although his schooling was cut short by World War II. During and shortly after the conflict, he served as a machine-gunner in the U.S. Army 88th Infantry Division. Upon returning to the United States, he entered Rollins College, graduating in 1953. He then entered Cornell Law School, but never finished his course of study.

Newton married Dorothy Anne Houston and fathered two children, Anne and Christopher. The best man at the wedding and the godfather to the children was Fred Rogers of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood fame.

A Day No Pigs Would Die was his first novel, published in 1972 when he was already 44 years old. From then on he continued his lifelong journey through literature. To date, he has been credited for writing 55 fiction books, 6 nonfiction books, 35 songs, 3 television specials and over a hundred poems.

Several of his historical novels are about Fort Ticonderoga: Fawn, Hang for Treason, The King's Iron.

In 1993, Peck was diagnosed with oral cancer, but survived. As of 2005, he was living in Longwood, Florida, where he has in the past served as the director of the Rollins College Writers Conference. Peck sings in a barbershop quartet, plays ragtime piano, and is an enthusiastic speaker. His hobby is visiting schools, "to turn kids on to books."

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Robert Newton Peck

3.6/5 ( ratings)
Born
February 16 1928
From Wikipedia--

Robert Newton Peck is an American author of books for young adults. His titles include Soup and A Day No Pigs Would Die. He claims to have been born on February 17, 1928, in Vermont, but has refused to specify where. Similarly, he claims to have graduated from a high school in Texas, which he has also refused to identify. Some sources state that he was born in Nashville, Tennessee The only reasonably certain Vermont connection is that his father was born in Cornwall.

Peck has written over sixty books including a great book explaining his childhood to becoming a teenager working on the farm called: A Day no Pigs would Die

He was a smart student, although his schooling was cut short by World War II. During and shortly after the conflict, he served as a machine-gunner in the U.S. Army 88th Infantry Division. Upon returning to the United States, he entered Rollins College, graduating in 1953. He then entered Cornell Law School, but never finished his course of study.

Newton married Dorothy Anne Houston and fathered two children, Anne and Christopher. The best man at the wedding and the godfather to the children was Fred Rogers of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood fame.

A Day No Pigs Would Die was his first novel, published in 1972 when he was already 44 years old. From then on he continued his lifelong journey through literature. To date, he has been credited for writing 55 fiction books, 6 nonfiction books, 35 songs, 3 television specials and over a hundred poems.

Several of his historical novels are about Fort Ticonderoga: Fawn, Hang for Treason, The King's Iron.

In 1993, Peck was diagnosed with oral cancer, but survived. As of 2005, he was living in Longwood, Florida, where he has in the past served as the director of the Rollins College Writers Conference. Peck sings in a barbershop quartet, plays ragtime piano, and is an enthusiastic speaker. His hobby is visiting schools, "to turn kids on to books."

For more information, please see http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-n...

Books from Robert Newton Peck

A Day No Pigs Would Die

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Soup & Me

4/5 ( ratings)

Soup for President

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A Part of the Sky

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Soup on Wheels

4/5 ( ratings)

Soup on Ice

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Soup in Love

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Horse Thief

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Soup's Drum

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Reader's Digest Condensed Books; 1973 #1, Volume 92: The Stepford Wives / The Odessa File / A Day No Pigs Would Die / Stanfield Harvest / P.S. Your Not Listening

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Kirk's Law

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Soup Ahoy (Soup, #13)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Extra Innings

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Bro

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Soup's Goat (Soup, #7)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Wild Cat

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Soup

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Path of Hunters: Animal Struggle in a Meadow

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Trig

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Fiction Is Folks: How to Create Unforgettable Characters

4.2/5 ( ratings)
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