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what is Richard Pecks middle name? john

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Template {{authority control}} in the footer links bibliographic resources. WorldCat may be most useful. For the Library of Congress catalog a better point of entry is ... [hope to find it]

"Peck, Richard". Children's Author/Illustrator Biographies. Educational Book & Media Association (edupaperback.org). n.d. Retrieved 2013-03-15. (Possibly reprinted from Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, 2nd ed., Gale Group, 2002.)

Publishers Weekly

"PW Interviews Richard Peck", Jean F. Mercier, Publishers Weekly, March 14, 1980 [reference via Google Books]
[1] "Richard Peck: A Long Way from Decatur", Jennifer M. Brown, PW 250:29, July 21, 2003
[2] "Q & A with Richard Peck", Heather Vogel, PW, September 24, 2009
[3] "Richard Peck on Writing Through the Revolutions", an address by Peck, edited, PW, October 7, 2010

The 2003 PW is one old ref in the article.

--P64 (talk) 01:34, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Genres[edit]

How well or poorly do these genre (generic?) labels fit Peck's work?

both in general, and specifically the Edwards Award-cited works: Are You in the House Alone? (1976) The Ghost Belonged to Me (1976) Ghosts I Have Been (1977) Father Figure (1978) Secrets of the Shopping Mall (1979) Remembering the Good Times (1985)

Evidently he wrote some ghost stories :-)

Richard Peck at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database catalogs ten of his books and a few stories. As I understand the database and the genres, ISFDB does not thoroughly cover horror or supernatural fiction, or ghost stories, and does not even wave at crime or mystery fiction, or detective stories.

--P64 (talk) 02:42, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Works[edit]

I deleted the latest nonfiction entries

2007: Escape! The Story Of The Great Houdini
2009: Nothing stoy

The former is by Sid Fleischman. I do not readily find any hits for the latter, Nothing Story, or Nothing(s) Toy as the title of any recent book, nor is there any similar listing in the Library of Congress Catalog http://catalog.loc.gov

Relying on LCCatalog and a few bookdealer pages I added one Novel (1981: Close Enough to Touch[4]) and augmented the Anthologies and Nonfiction sections.

[Having used this space as a scratchpad I refashion it as a record of bibliog sources for Works except Novels.]

Numerical external links refer to book page in LCCat
Anthologies

1966: [add] [5] Edge of Awareness: 25 Contemporary Essays
1970: [6] Sounds and Silences: Poems For Now
1971: Mindscapes: Poems for the Real World --LCCat omits to identify him as editor but one bookdealer notes "Poets include: John Updike, W.H. Auden, Rod McKuen, Robert Frost and Phyllis Gottlieb." http://www.abebooks.com/Mindscapes-Poems-Real-World-Peck-Richard/1205669705/bd
1973: [not in LCCat] Leap Into Reality: Essays For Now http://www.worldcat.org/title/leap-into-reality-essays-for-now/oclc/1842580
1976: [not in LCCat] Pictures That Storm Inside My Head (poetry anthology, editor) http://www.worldcat.org/title/pictures-that-storm-inside-my-head-poems-for-the-inner-you/oclc/2790616&referer=brief_results
2004: [7] Past Perfect, Present Tense (short story collection)

Nonfiction

1972: [add] [8] Consumer's guide
1973: [not 1971] [9] Creative word http://www.worldcat.org/title/creative-word/oclc/701395
1974: [10] Transitions
1974: [11] Urban studies
1975: [add] [12] Housing
1987: [relocate from novels] [not in LCCat] Write a Tale of Terror (28pp, illustrated) WorldCat (32pp, dealer category Writing & Learning Guides, ISBN 0913839604) http://www.bookdepository.com/Write-Tale-Terror-Richard-Peck/9780913839607 (OFallon, MO: Book Lures) https://isbndb.com/d/publisher/book_lures.html?start_item=21 --which hints perhaps by series editor/compiler Nancy Polette with terror writer Richard Peck
1991: [13] (1995 ppb) Anonymously Yours (autobiography)
1994: [14] Love and Death at the Mall: Teaching and Writing for the Literate Young
2002: [15] Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young

Delacorte Press, Dial Press, and Laurel Leaf Library were imprints of Dell (later Doubleday Dell, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Random House). Those imprints and Random House English cover most of the anthologies and nonfiction.

The Anthologies (1966-76, how many primarily for the schools market?) and the 1972-75 nonfiction reveal an early career that should be covered in prose. He left teaching in 1971, we say, but it appears that he did not become a full-time children's novelist until 1976, perhaps with the success of The Ghost Belonged to Me (1975). --the first Blossom Culp book, promptly adapted on screen, and our only book article until 1998.

--P64 (talk) 17:33, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]