{"id":2102,"date":"2016-04-29T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:23:13","slug":"sterne-emma-gelders-1884-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"STERNE, EMMA GELDERS, 1894-1971"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author, editor, social activist.. Born– May 13, 1894 in Birmingham, Ala. Parents– Louis and Blanche (Loeb) Gelders. Married– Roy M. Sterne in March, 1917. Children– Two. Education– Smith College, A.B.;\u00a0further study at \u00a0Columbia University and New School for Social Research. Taught in Rowayton, Conn., 1946-1950; editor at American Book Co., 1950-1956. \u00a0Member– American Civil Liberties Union, NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Educational Fund,\u00a0Student Nonviolent\u00a0Coordinating Committee, Women for Peace, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Died August 29, 1971.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; bhamwiki<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amarantha Gay, M. D. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1932.<\/p>\n

America Was Like This. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1941.<\/p>\n

A Ball for Little Bear; an Ojibway Legend. New York; Aladdin Books, 1953.<\/p>\n

Benito Juarez, Builder of a Nation. New York; Knopf, 1967.<\/p>\n

Blood Brothers, Four Men of Science. New York; Knopf, 1958.<\/p>\n

Balboa. New York; Knopf, 1960.<\/p>\n

Blue Pigeons. New York; Duffold & Co., 1929.<\/p>\n

Calico Ball. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1933.<\/p>\n

Drums of Monmouth. New York; Court Book, Co., 1935.<\/p>\n

European Summer. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1938.<\/p>\n

Far Town Road.\u00a0 Dodd, 1937.<\/p>\n

His Was the Voice; the Life of W. E. B. DuBois. New York; Crowell-Collier Press, 1971.<\/p>\n

How Rabbit Stole Fire; a Cherokee Legend. New York; Aladdin Books, 1954.<\/p>\n

I have a Dream. New York; Knopf, 1965.<\/p>\n

Incident in Yorkville. New York; Farrar & Rinehart, 1943.<\/p>\n

Let the Moon Go By; a Book of Tall Tales. New York; Aladdin Books, 1955.<\/p>\n

The Long Black Schooner, the Voyage of the Amistad. New York; Aladdin Books, 1953.<\/p>\n

Loud Sing Cuckoo. New York; Duffield, 1930.<\/p>\n

Mary McLeod Bethune. New York; Knopf, 1957.<\/p>\n

Miranda Was a Princess; a Story of Old Spain. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1937.<\/p>\n

No surrender. New York; Duffield and Green, 1932.<\/p>\n

The Pirate of Chatham Square, a Story of Old New York. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1939.<\/p>\n

Printer’s Devil. New York; Aladdin Books, 1952.<\/p>\n

The Reluctant Dragon; a Play in Three Acts. New York; S. French, 1935.<\/p>\n

Some Plant Olive Trees. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1937.<\/p>\n

They Took Their Stand. New York; Crowell-Collier, 1968.<\/p>\n

Watchtowers and Drums. New York; Aladdin Books, 1953.<\/p>\n

We Live to Be Free. New York; Farrar & Rinehart, 1942.<\/p>\n

White Swallow. New York; Duffold & Co., 1928.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kathy Martin Series.\u00a0 Golden Books, 1959-65.<\/p>\n

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Golden Books, 1962.<\/p>\n

The Sea.\u00a0 Golden Books, 1959.<\/p>\n

Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

American Heritage series published by Aladdin.<\/p>\n

“Blueprint for Tomorrow,” pamphlet series published by International Business and Professional Women.<\/p>\n

Little Women.\u00a0 Golden Books, 1954.<\/p>\n

Moby Dick.\u00a0 Golden Books, 1957.<\/p>\n

The Bible, Designed to Be Read by People of All Ages. Chicago; Library Publishers, 1959.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of the papers of Emma Gelders Sterne is held by the Special Collections Department at the University of Oregon Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Author, editor, social activist.. Born– May 13, 1894 in Birmingham, Ala. Parents– Louis and Blanche (Loeb) Gelders. Married– Roy M. Sterne in March, 1917. Children– Two. Education– Smith College, A.B.;\u00a0further study at \u00a0Columbia University and New School for Social Research. Taught in Rowayton, Conn., 1946-1950; editor at American Book Co., 1950-1956. \u00a0Member– American Civil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5437,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/5437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}