Sam Swope

Sam Swope is an author and the 2006 Thurber House children's writer in residence.

Works by Swope include I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories, a memoir recounting three years Swope spent teaching writing students at a Queens, New York, public school.

I Am a Pencil won a 2005 Christopher Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, The Bechtel Prize, and was "named one of the best books of 2004 by Publishers Weekly."

Swope has reviewed books for the New York Times.

Books

References

  1. ↑ Bohjalian, Chris (2004-08-01). "Putting young lives to paper/Children's author takes a detour to teach writing at an immigrant-heavy New York grade school". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  2. ↑ "Sam Swope bio". Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  3. ↑ "Young Writers in Queens: 'I Am a Pencil': NPR". NPR. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  4. ↑ Swope, Sam (2006-12-03). "Peter Pan Books". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-23.