HELP!!!!! Homework trouble - can you help me????

[petrymom]

Hello,
DS is doing a book review of Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield. He needs to find biographical information about this author.

I have searched the web and cannot pull any information about the author, but keep pulling information about the president.

Can anyone help with a source of information such as birthplace, birthday, family etc???

PLEASE!!!!!!! We are getting desperate!!!!!!

 

[terryX]

Hello,
DS is doing a book review of Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield. He needs to find biographical information about this author.

I have searched the web and cannot pull any information about the author, but keep pulling information about the president.

Can anyone help with a source of information such as birthplace, birthday, family etc???

PLEASE!!!!!!! We are getting desperate!!!!!!

Have you tried "ask.com"? I got several links for the author.
Hope this helps.

 

[kendall]

try this Google search (copy/paste the following text):

author "james b. garfield" -president "follow my leader"

the double quotes will search for the phrase, the "-" will take out the word president in your search results.

I'll dig through the results and see what I find -

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Sorry I am of no help but I had to reply. This was my favorite book in elementary school, and I am 53 now. I had no idea it was still around. I got my copy out to see if it had any info about the author. (It doesn't.) My copy was $.50. Good luck.

 

[kendall]

try this Google search (copy/paste the following text):

author "james b. garfield" -president "follow my leader"

the double quotes will search for the phrase, the "-" will take out the word president in your search results.

I'll dig through the results and see what I find -

edited to include the author's middle initial
not finding much bio info yet...

 

[petrymom]

Thanks for looking - I am currently trying the google search. It did definitely pull more up than before, but no biographical facts.

Ask didn't pull any more than google. Still searching!!!!

 

[Erie Islands]

Born Sept. 19, 1881 died: May 23, 1984

author of Follow My Leader (1955) and They Like You Better (1955)

Search: "James B. Garfield"

 

[kendall]

Born Sept. 19, 1881 (http://www.cheepnis.free-online.co.uk/aa/sep19.htm and died May 23, 1984 (http://www.cheepnis.free-online.co.uk/aa/may23.htm

Still looking...

 

[kendall]

Social security number,
born in California,
died in Georgia
info online at www.familysearch.org - put in the name and year of birth, scroll to find James Garfield matching birth date

James GARFIELD
Birth Date: 19 Sep 1881
Death Date: May 1984
Social Security Number: 545-18-3096
State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: California

Death Residence Localities
ZIP Code: 31601
Localities: Clyattville, Lowndes, Georgia
Dasher, Lowndes, Georgia
Remerton, Lowndes, Georgia
Valdosta, Lowndes, Georgia

 

[kendall]

page 64 of the Directory of Resources for Diverse Populations on page 64 indicates that the author himself was blind.

 

[petrymom]

Man Kendall, You are awesome at this!!!! Thanks for your help. I found a link to a new article about his death but cannot pull it up. I understand he was a poet too.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I found something. Not sure if it is the same as Kendall.

OBITUARY NOTICE
Born September 19, 1881, in Atlanta, Ga.; died of pneumonia, May 23, 1984, in Valdosta, Ga. Actor, broadcaster, and author. An actor on Broadway and then in vaudeville during the early 1900's, Garfield became a free-lance writer and actor for radio during the 1930's, playing in more than twenty-five hundred soap opera episodes. Though blindness ended his acting career, Garfield continued to work in radio, broadcasting the weekly public service program "A Blind Man Looks at You" from 1947 to 1967. He wrote stories, poems, and articles for juvenile magazines and gained acclaim for his novel, Follow My Leader, about a seeing eye dog and his master. After the book's publication, Garfield earned recognition as a classroom speaker and expert on the blind. He was appointed to the California State Commission for the Blind by former California Governor Edmund G. Brown.


OBITUARY AND OTHER SOURCES
PERIODICALS
Washington Post, May 28, 1984.



SOURCE CITATION

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

 

[kendall]

Ah, OceanAnnie, awesome! Brilliant idea to check the obit from 1984!

Petrymom, thanks for the challenge, I love a good search every now and then - I think I'll even read this book - nice easy read...

I can go to bed now, comforted by the thought that the homework assignment can be completed

Good night!

 

[petrymom]

Thank you all!!!! I am also going to bed soon. You have all been great!!!!! i hope I can return the favor someday!!!!!!!