Description
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.
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2020/06/29
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2013/09/19
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2008/05/27
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