Charles Boardman Hayes ( Eng. Charles Boardman Hawes , 1889-1923) - American writer.
| Charles Boardman Hayes | |
|---|---|
| English Charles Boardman Hawes | |
| Date of Birth | January 24, 1889 |
| Place of Birth | Clifton Springs , New York , USA |
| Date of death | July 16, 1923 (34 years old) |
| A place of death | Springfield , Massachusetts , USA |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Occupation | prose writer |
| Years of creativity | 1920-1923 |
| Genre | science fiction, sea affairs |
| Language of Works | English |
| Awards | John Newbury Medal |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Publications
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Charles Hayes was the eldest son of Charles Taylor Hayes and Martha Tibbets Boardman. In 1911, he graduated from Bowden College in Brunswick , Maine , where he was editor of a student newspaper. [1] Subsequently, Hayes studied at Harvard University for a year, being a staff member of the children's magazine Youth's Companion , after which he was a member of the editorial board of Open Path magazine until his death in 1923 [1] .
In 1916, Charles Hayes married Dorothy Cable of Northampton, Massachusetts, the youngest daughter of writer George Cable . In marriage they had two children [2] .
Hayes' first book was The Mutineers: a tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago , published by Atlantic Monthly Press and Little, Brown and Company in 1920. His second book, The Great Quest; a romance of 1826, are are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea ), published in 1921, was nominated in 1922 for the newly established Newbury Medal , the first American award for children's books. [3]
Charles Hayes suddenly died of pulmonary meningitis in Springfield , Massachusetts, July 16, 1923, at the age of 34, two days before the publication of his next novel, Gloucester on Land and Sea ( Eng. Gloucester, by Land and Sea ).
Hayes during his lifetime managed to complete the manuscript of the novel "The Dark Frigate" ( Eng. The Dark Frigate ), dedicated to the adventures of Philip Morshan, an English sailor of the XVII century. The novel quickly became a bestseller and was awarded the Newbury Medal ; American children's librarians called Hayes "the author of the most outstanding contribution to American children's literature" [3] .
Hayes's two articles were posthumously published in Atlantic Monthly. The widow of Hayes Dorothy completed yet another of his books, Whalers, published in 1924.
Publications
- The Mutineers: a tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920), illustrated by George Edmund Varian (Little, Brown, 1919 or 1920)
- The Great Quest; a romance of 1826, those are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921) (Little, Brown, 1921)
- Gloucester, by Land and Sea; the story of a New England seacoast town (Little, Brown, July 1923), with illustrations by L. Hornby - published 2 days after the death of C. Hayes [2]
- The Dark Frigate; (Atlantic Monthly Press, October 1923) (Little, Brown, 1923)
- “The Story of the Ship“ Globe “of Nantucket”, Atlantic Monthly (December 1923): 769-79
- A Boy Who Went Whaling, Atlantic Monthly 133: 6 (June 1924): 797–805
- Whaling (Doubleday, Page, 1924) - completed by the widow of C. Hayes after the death of the author.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 "Book Reviews in Tabloid: the winner of the John Newbery Medal, 1924." The Atlanta Constitution . July 13, 1924. p. C6.
- ↑ 1 2 “Books and Authors”. The New York Times . August 12, 1923. p. BR26.
- ↑ 1 2 Newbery Medal & Honor Books, 1922-Present Archived June 16, 2007. . Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). American Library Association. Retrieved 2006-07-02.
Links
- Charles Boardman Hawes works in the Gutenberg project
- Charles Boardman Hawes at the Library of Congress