| 词条 | Mary Gould Davis |
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| image = | caption = | alt = | name = Mary Gould Davis | birth_date = {{Birth date|1882|02|13}} | birth_place = Bangor, Maine | birth_name = Mary Gould Davis | death_date = {{death date and age|1956|04|15|1882|02|13}} | death_place = New York City, New York | occupation = Writer | nationality = American | period = 1927–1956[1] | genre = Children's literature | notableworks = {{plainlist|
}} }}{{redirect|Mary Gould|the English silversmith|Mary Gould (silversmith)}} Mary Gould Davis (February 13, 1882 – April 15, 1956) was an American author, librarian, storyteller and editor.[2] She received a Newbery Honor. Early and personal lifeDavis was born on February 13, 1882, in Bangor, Maine. She moved to Middlesboro, Kentucky, before relocating more permanently to New York City in 1896. CareerDavis began working at Brooklyn Public Library as an assistant librarian in 1905, before working at New York Public Library, in the same position, starting in 1913. She was promoted to supervisor of storytelling in 1922, and held that position until her retirement from librarianship on New Year's Eve, 1944. During and after her tenure as supervisor of storytelling, she published a number of books, mainly collections of stories for children. Her first book was 1930's A Baker's Dozen: Thirteen Stories to Tell and to Read Aloud, and, perhaps her most lauded, Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy, was published in 1931 and received a Newbery Honor in 1932. She continued to write and edit books until the publication of The Girl's Book of Verse: A Treasury of Old and New Poems, her final work, in 1952. DeathDavis died on April 15, 1956, at the age of 74, in New York City. BibliographyAs sole author
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References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://archives.nypl.org/mss/737|title=Mary Gould Davis papers|publisher=New York Public Library|accessdate=August 3, 2017}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Mary Gould}}2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6833z2z|title=Davis, Mary Gould, 1882-1956|publisher=SNAC|accessdate=August 3, 2017}} 7 : 1882 births|1956 deaths|20th-century American novelists|American children's writers|American women novelists|Newbery Honor winners|20th-century American women writers |
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