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Monroe Stearns

1913 – 1987

American writer

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Lived 1913 – 1987 (aged 74). Monroe Stearns was an American art historian, writer, historian and translator.

Monroe Mather Stearns (September 28, 1913 – December 1, 1987) was an American art historian, writer, translator of French novels, editor, and collector of children's verse. Along with work as an editor at Prentice Hall, Stearns also translated French World War II and Jewish historical sources such as by Michael Bar-Zohar.

Stearns was born in Connecticut and died in New York City.

Works Ring A Ling collection of children's verse (Artia, 1959) Dante - Poet of Love Julius Caesar: Master of Men The Story of New England (Random House, 1967) Shays' Rebellion (Watts, 1968) The Great Awakening (Watts, 1970)

Translations Marcel Haedrich La Rose Et Les Soldats. The Soldier and the Rose, 1963 Sergeanne Golon Angélique Et Le Roy. Angélique and the King. 1960 Paule Cloutier Daveluy L'Été Enchanté. Summer in Ville-Marie 1963 Serge and Anne Golon Indomptable Angélique. Angélique and the Sultan. 1961 Beate Klarsfeld Partout ou ils seront. Wherever they may be! translated by Monroe Stearns and Natalie Gerardi. New York: Vanguard Press, 1975. Michael Bar-Zohar Embassies in Crisis: Diplomats and Demagogues behind the Six-Day War. Translated from the French by Monroe Stearns.

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Who was Monroe Stearns?

American writer

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Monroe Stearns was born on 28 September 1913 in Connecticut.

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Monroe Stearns died on 1 December 1987 in New York City.

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Monroe Stearns was an art historian, writer, historian and translator.

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Monroe Stearns was American.

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· Wikipedia: Monroe Stearns

· Wikidata: Q16749917

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