Esther Forbes

Esther Forbes was born in 1891 in Westborough, Massachusetts, the daughter of a judge and the historian Harriette Merrifield Forbes, and grew up in Worcester. She attended Bradford Academy and took classes at the University of Wisconsin. Back in Massachusetts she worked as an editor at the publisher Houghton Mifflin and began writing historical novels, beginning with O Genteel Lady! (1926). Her research for a novel led her to write Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (1942), a biography that won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1943. Her research on Revere's Boston also inspired Johnny Tremain (1943), a novel for young readers about a silversmith's apprentice who injures his hand and becomes caught up in the events leading to the American Revolution. It won the Newbery Medal in 1944 and was made into a Disney film. Forbes continued to write novels for adults. She was the first woman elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. She died in Worcester in 1967.

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