Young author Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli

Living place: Norristown

Birthday: 1-2-1941 (83 years old)

Population of US 1941: 133,402,471

Global rank: #12659

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Young author Jerry Spinelli profile

Who is Young author Jerry Spinelli?
Award-winning author of young adult novels whose best known works include Camcorder, Stargirl, and Maniac Magee. His first children's book, Space Station Seventh Grade, was published in early 1980.
He received the Newbery Medal in 1991 for his most famous work, Maniac Magee.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He attended Gettysburg College and Johns Hopkins University. He later worked as an editor for a department store publication and held several other odd jobs that allowed him to pursue a writing career in his spare time.

Family life info

He married fellow children's book author, Eileen MESI, in 1977. The couple went on to have six children and over twenty grandchildren.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Young author Jerry Spinelli?
He is a fan of author Madeline Lengle.

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Summary of Jerry Spinelli profile

When was Young author Jerry Spinelli born?
Jerry Spinelli birthday 1-2-1941 (at the age of 83).
Where is Young author Jerry Spinelli's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Jerry Spinelli was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania- United States. is a Young author, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Jerry Spinelli's global rank is 12659 and whose rank is 11 in list of famous Young author. Population of US in 1941 is about 133,402,471 persons.
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Events in 1941 and 1-2

Events in US in the birth year of Jerry Spinelli

  • Roosevelt enunciates "four freedoms" in his Jan. 6 message to Congress.
  • Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act, giving President the power to sell, lend, and lease war supplies to other nations.

Birthday Jerry Spinelli (1-2) in history

  • Day 1-2 year 1790: The United States Supreme Court was convened for the first time in New York City.
  • Day 1-2 year 1862: Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
  • Day 1-2 year 1884: The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.
  • Day 1-2 year 1946: A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Day 1-2 year 1960: Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.
  • Day 1-2 year 1968: During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.
  • Day 1-2 year 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
  • Day 1-2 year 2003: The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
  • Day 1-2 year 2004: Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
  • Day 1-2 year 2009: Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.
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