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Piper, Watty

LC control no.n 50082433
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3531.I78
Personal name headingPiper, Watty
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Variant(s)פיּפר, ווטי
Munk, Arnold, 1888-1957
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1888
Death date1957
Place of birthHungary
Field of activityChildren's literature
AffiliationPlatt & Munk Co.
Profession or occupationEditors Authors
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inAuthor's Fairy tales that never grow old ... c1927.
Little engine that could, c2005: title page (retold by Watty Piper)
Wikipedia WWW site, March 28, 2013: (Little Engine That Could was written by "Watty Piper", a pen name of Arnold Munk, who was the owner of the publishing firm Platt & Munk that originally published it. Arnold Munk used the name Watty Piper as both an author of children's books and as the editor of many of the books that Platt & Munk published)
Penguin Random House Website, Apr. 13, 2022 (Watty Piper was a pen name of Arnold Munk, an owner of the publishing firm Platt & Munk; he was born in Hungary and, as a child, moved with his family to Chicago and later to New York, where he died in 1957; Arnold Munk used the name Watty Piper as both an author of children's books and as the editor of many of the books that Platt & Munk published)
   <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/62291/watty-piper/#:~:text=Watty%20Piper%20was%20a%20pen,where%20he%20died%20in%201957.>
Find a grave, viewed Sept. 13, 2022: Arnold Munk page (Arnold Munk; 1888-1957. President of Platt & Munk Co.; specialized in children's books. Pen name, Watty Piper)
   <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131068906/arnold-h-munk>
Associated languageeng