| LC control no. | n 50003235 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fitzgerald, John Dennis |
| Variant(s) | Fitzgerald, John D. (John Dennis) Fitzgerald, John D., 1906-1988 Fitzgerald, John Dennis, 1906-1988 |
| Biography/History note | John Dennis Fitzgerald (1906-1988) was an American author from Utah. |
| Birth date | 1906-02-03 |
| Death date | 1988-05-21 |
| Place of birth | Price (Utah) |
| Place of death | Titusville (Fla.) |
| Field of activity | Publishing industry |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Found in | His Papa married a Mormon, 1955. Papa married a Mormon, 2000: t.p. (John D. Fitzgerald) p. 4 of cover (b. in Utah; d. in Fla. in 1988; author of short stories, magazine articles, adventure books for young readers) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1906; writer of short stories) His More adventures of the Great Brain [SR], ©2012 publisher supplied information (John D. Fitzgerald) Wikipedia, Sept. 4, 2013 (John Dennis Fitzgerald; Feb. 3, 1906 - May 21, 1988; born in Price, Utah; American author of Papa married a Mormon and the Great Brain series; wrote adult fiction early in his career before turning his attention to children's fiction with the Great Brain series, which was loosely based on his own family; also co-wrote two books about creative writing) Wikipedia, May 22, 2020 (John D. Fitzgerald; John Dennis Fitzgerald; born February 3, 1906 in Price, Utah; died May 21, 1988 in Titusville, Florida; American author, most notable for The Great Brain series of children's books; he was the son of an Irish Catholic father and a Scandinavian mother who was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; he left Utah in 1925, at the age of 18, and held a variety of jobs, including playing in a jazz band, working at a bank and working for a steel company; Fitzgerald published his first novel, Papa Married a Mormon, in 1955; other novels for adults about late nineteenth and early twentieth century Utah followed; in the 1960s, he turned his attention to books for children, writing the highly successful The Great Brain series, in which his characters are loosely based on people from his own family and community, including himself) |
| Associated language | eng |
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