Below the countdown to Esther Forbes upcoming birthday. Esther Forbes will celebrate 132nd birthday on Wednesday, 28th of June 2023. Currently, Esther Forbes is 131 years, 8 months and 25 days old. Her novel Johnny Tremain (1943), about the life of a young silversmith apprentice in Boston in the early 1770s, won the 1944 Newbery Medal and remains one of the most highly acclaimed books for young adults.įorbes died in 1967, at age 76 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Esther Forbes is best known as Childrens Author who has born on Jin Massachusetts.

Forbes' 1942 biography Paul Revere and the World He Lived In put her even more firmly in the spotlight and subsequently brought her the Pulitzer Prize for History. They were divorced in 1933.īy 1938 Forbes had published a number of books, and first received critical and public acclaim for her novel, A Mirror for Witches, which was produced in several other formats (e.g., theatrical) and has never been out of print.

Her first novel, Oh Genteel Lady!, was published in 1926 and was made a selection by the then newly formed Book-of-the-Month Club. After attending school in Wisconsin, Forbes served as a member of the editorial staff at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. When World War I interrupted her studies, she traveled to Virginia to work on a farm. They influenced her decision to study journalism at the University of Wisconsin. Her father was a judge and her mother was a professional researcher and writer. Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the fifth of six children born to Harriette Merrifield and William Trowbridge Forbes. Born 28 June 1891, Westborough, Massachusetts died 12 August 1967, Worcester, Massachusetts. Esther Forbes was born in Massachusetts on June 28, 1891.

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