Richard and Florence Atwater · AuthorAuthor
Richard and Florence Atwater
American husband-and-wife writers, authors of Mr. Popper's Penguins
About Richard and Florence Atwater
Richard Atwater (1892–1948) taught Greek at the University of Chicago and wrote a humor column for Chicago newspapers; Florence Hasseltine Carroll Atwater (1896–1979), his wife, was a teacher and writer. Richard drafted the penguin story after seeing a film of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition, but a stroke in 1934 left him unable to write. Florence, who supported the family by teaching and writing for magazines, revised the manuscript and saw it published by Little, Brown in 1938.
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Mr. Popper's PenguinsRichard and Florence Atwater
1938 · Early 20th Century · Novel
Mr. Popper's Penguins is a comic novel in twenty short chapters about a house painter in the small town of Stillwater who dreams of the polar regions. Mr. Popper is a gentle, rather untidy man with a patient wife and two children, Bill and Janie.