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Date of Birth
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16-March-1884
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Place of Birth
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Amesbury
(Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Eric Philbrook Kelly, Eric Kelly
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Profession
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Writer, Journalist, Teacher
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Eric Philbrook Kelly was an American journalist, academic and author of children's books. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College and briefly a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He won the 1929 Newbery Medal recognizing his first published book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, as the preceding year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature.
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