About Robert Garvey
Lived 1908 – 1983 (aged 74–75). Robert Garvey was an American writer and children's writer.
Robert Garvey (1908–1983) was a Jewish author. He served as Executive Secretary of the Jewish Book Publishers Association (1972–1976). Robert Garvey died in New York in 1983.
Partial bibliography Good Shabbos, Everybody! (illustrated by Maurice Sendak, 1951) A First Chanukah Word Book (1952) The Ghosts of Camp J (1955) Holidays are Nice: Around the Year With the Jewish Child (illustrated by Arnold Lobel and Ezekiel Schloss, 1960) Happy Holiday (1960) What Feast? And Other Tales (1974) The Hanukah Play (1979)
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American writer
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Robert Garvey was born in 1908.
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Robert Garvey died in 1983.
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Robert Garvey was American.
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