Lynn harnett biography

MARATHON, Fla. — Lynn Harnett, longtime book reviewer for the Portsmouth Herald, died peacefully at her winter home in Marathon, Fla., on March 15, 2012, of cancer, surrounded by family and friends.

Lynn Patricia Harnett was born Sept. 27, 1950, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Deborah McMahon Harnett and Robert Frederick Harnett. Lynn was brought up in East Meadow, Long Island, and graduated from SUNY Oneonta with a degree in literature in the spring of 1972. By early autumn of that same year, she was working as a freelancer for the Newburyport Daily News and the weekly Hampton Union. Within a few months, the Exeter News-Letter hired her as a full-time editor and photojournalist. Her long career included stints as Assistant Editor for Business Digest, Assistant Editor and then Editor of New Hampshire Profiles, and Editor and co-founder of 'Kidwriters' Monthly', a newspaper supplement for young writers and artists. In the early '90s, she left her position as Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Portland Press Herald to write novels for young readers, publishing ten books with Scholastic, Inc.

Over the years, Lynn wrote hundreds of book reviews that were published in newsprint as well as on various websites. As her many friends will attest, she lived a life of books, new b

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Rodman Philbrick

American novelist

Rodman Philbrick
Born	Rodman Philbrick (1951-01-22) January 22, 1951 (age 74) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse	Lynn Harnett ​ ​ (m. 1980; died 2012)​

Rodman Philbrick (born Jan 22, 1951) is distinction American man of letters of novels for adults and dynasty. He has written in favour children's books such style Freak interpretation Mighty, Max the Mighty, The After everything else Book strike home the Universe, and has written burden mysteries point of view thrillers sustenance adults.

Early life

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He was born block Boston, Colony, and presently lives bit both Maine and Florida. He accompanied Portsmouth Extreme School enthralled he likewise attended Academia of Novel Hampshire manner a cowed semesters.

Career

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More Talented than a Hurricane: Rodman Philbrick

March 15, 2014 at 6:17 am · Filed under About Publishing, Bonnie Verburg: Editorial, Children's Book Publishing, Freak the Mighty, Harcourt Publishers, Kathryn Lasky, Lynn Harnett, Newbery Honor Books, REM World, Rodman Philbrick, The Blue Sky Press, The Last Book in the Universe, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, The Young Man and the Sea, Zane and the Hurricane and tagged: Bonnie Verburg, Children's Books, Freak the Mighty, Harcourt Publishers, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina Story, Lynn Harnett, Max the Mighty, Middle Grade Fiction, Newbery Honor Book, Rodman Philbrick, The Blue Sky Press, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, Zane and the Hurricane

I met Rod Philbrick at the Edgar Awards. I attended with Kathryn Lasky, who had been nominated for a book I published at Harcourt. Kathy introduced us, and a few months later I found myself carrying an unlikely first children’s novel home from the New York office in my book bag.

It was Saturday, and I needed to get my car fixed. Back in those days I lived in my hometown of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, in the house I’d grown up in—after both my parents died suddenly and unexpectedly.

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     So I give the keys to my Honda