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writing process. He writes each page six times, then places it in a three-ring binder with a DePauw University cover ("a talisman," he calls this memento from his alma mater). When he feels that he has gotten a page just right, he takes out another 20 words. "After a year, I've come to the end. Then I'll take this first chapter, and without rereading it, I'll throw it away and write the chapter that goes at the beginning. Because the first chapter is the last chapter in disguise." He always hands in a completed manuscript, and his editor is his first reader.
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Sutton: "Did you find, as a gay person, that you brought a particular perspective to the story?" Peck: "I think I did, because when I was coming into the world as an adult, long ago, you could go to prison for that. And now my friends are younger than I am, and they came into a world in which you
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When the author is not traveling, he works at an L-shaped desk, which affords a sunny window. He writes everything on an electric typewriter because "it has to be a book from the first day," he explains. He has no daily routine because of all the traveling he does, but follows a very disciplined
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to teach English. After a while, he decided to cut his career short and write. However, these observations about junior high school students proved to be inspiring material for his books. He said, "Ironically, it was my students who taught me to be a writer, though I was hired to teach them."
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The lifetime Edwards Award recognizes a specified body of work for "helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and in the world." The 1990 panel cited six of Peck's books published from 1976 to 1985:
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The librarians noted, "Through sharp wit and strong storytelling, Richard Peck's novels encourage readers to carefully examine the world around them as well as to seek possibilities beyond immediate view."
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could die of AIDS because of that. And these were our first views of who we were and what we were taught to be. And now, in the 21st century, something wonderful has happened."
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In a 2001 profile, family friend Marc Talbert described Peck as a person "who is fastidious about what he allows others to know about himself. He knew, respected, and honored
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in 1972, in which "A teenage girl struggles to understand her place within her family and in the world." He wrote a book each year since then totaling 41 books in 41 years.
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in ways that are refreshing for someone who grew up in the sixties and seventies, when every little personal thing was fair game."
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He lived in New York and divided his time between writing and traveling. Peck died in New York City in May 2018 at age 84.
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After college, he was drafted into the US Army as a chaplain's assistant and spent two years serving in
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career award—from that for "young adults". Peck won the second biennial "Young Adult Services Division/
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from his perspective as a gay man who had grown up in a time when homosexuality was punishable by law.
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Richard Peck died on May 23, 2018, at his home in New York City after a long battle with cancer.
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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2: Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
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Peck refused to embrace new technology, instead choosing to type his material on a typewriter.
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Meyer, E. Duane. "A Morning With The 2001 Newbery Medal Winner, Richard W. Peck, DePauw '56".
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Author Achievement Award", and the last one in that it was renamed and made annual that year.
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Peck wrote exclusively on a typewriter, described here in 'Publishers Weekly':
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Housing and Local Government: a research guide for policy-makers and planners
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Before 1988 the ALA awards did not distinguish "children's" literature—the
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Scholastic.com: Authors & Books: Richard Peck's Interview Transcript
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graduate, and his father owned a service station. He attended school in
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Love and Death at the Mall: Teaching and Writing for the Literate Young
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The Blossom Culp series comprises four novels published 1975 to 1986:
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for "outstanding contributions to the field of children's literature"
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for "significant and lasting contributions to young adult literature"
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The Great Interactive Dream Machine: Another Adventure in Cyberspace
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After his military service ended, he completed a master's degree at
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His collected papers written between 1972 and 1991 reside at
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Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young
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Pictures That Storm Inside My Head: Poems for the Inner You
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Children's Author/Illustrator Biographies: Richard Peck
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Past, Perfect, Present Tense: New and Collected Stories
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Past Perfect, Present Tense: New and Collected Stories
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teacher, but much to his dismay, was transferred to a
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Several of these books have the subtitle "a novel".
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Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2008. 270:'s School of Library and Information Sciences. 670:The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts 317:"Nobody, but a reader, ever became a writer." 213:Peck earned a bachelor's degree in English at 1521:, The Ezra Jack Keats Lecture, March 24, 2000 1276:University of Southern Mississippi Foundation 1228:Richard Peck Talks with Roger (Video Edition) 1089:"Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present" 931: 929: 8: 1325:De Grummond Children's Literature Collection 1296:Peck, Richard (2004). "Five Helpful Hints". 1170:250:29. July 21, 2003. Retrieved 2013-03-15. 1121:(YALSA). 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Index

Peck at the National Bookfest in 2013
Decatur, Illinois
Manhattan
New York
Graceland Cemetery
Young adult fiction
Edgar Award
Margaret Edwards Award
National Humanities Medal
Newbery Medal
young adult literature
Newbery Medal
2001
A Year Down Yonder
A Long Way From Chicago
American Library Association
Illinois
Wesleyan University
Decatur, Illinois
DePauw University
University of Exeter
Stuttgart, Germany
Southern Illinois University
high school
junior high school
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Louisiana State University
personal boundaries
marriage equality in the United States
The University of Southern Mississippi

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