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Quick facts for kids William H. Armstrong
Born	William Howard Armstrong September 14, 1911 Lexington, Virginia, US
Died	April 11, 1999 (age 87) Kent, Connecticut, US
Occupation	Writer, educator, history teacher
Language	English
Alma mater	Hampden-Sydney College
Genre	Children'shistorical novels, study guides
Notable works	Sounder
Notable awards	Newbery Medal 1970

William Howard Armstrong (September 14, 1911 – April 11, 1999) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.

Biography

William Howard Armstrong was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1911 during the worst hailstorm and tornado in the memory of his neighbors. He was the third child born to Howard Gratton Armstrong, a farmer, and his wife, Ida Morris Armstrong. He had a difficult time in school, being a small child with asthma and glasses.

While his father taught him to work hard, his mother taught Armstrong to love stories. "No one told me the Bible was not fo

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William H. Armstrong

Born

in Lexington, Virginia, The United States

September 14, 1911

Died

April 11, 1999

Genre

Children's, Historical Fiction

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William H. Armstrong (1911 - 1999) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder.

In 1956, at the request of his school headmaster, he published his first book, a study guide called Study Is Hard Work. Armstrong followed this title with numerous other self-help books, and in 1963 he was awarded the National School Bell Award of the National Association of School Administrators for distinguished service in the interpretation of education.

In 1969, Armstrong published his masterpiece, an eight-chapter novel titled Sounder about an African-American sharecropping family. Praised by critics, Sounder won the John Newbery Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1970, and was adapted iWilliam H. Armstrong (1911 - 1999) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder.

In 1956, at the r

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Bill Howard Armstrong, printmaker, painter, illustrator, and educator, was born in Horton, Kansas on 13 December 1926 to Pearl Marion and Elise Nettie Brown Armstrong. He attended Woodruff High School in Peoria, Illinois graduating in 1944. Armstrong enlisted in the United States Air Cadet Training Program, 1944-1945, and served in Manilla. Following his military discharge, he studied at Bradley University in Peoria and received his BFA degree (cum laude) in 1949. Armstrong continued his education at the University of Illinois at Urbana under Abraham Rattner and received his MFA in 1955.

Armstrong’s teaching career began in 1955 when he was hired as an assistant professor in the art department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. While there he was selected by the Ford Foundation to be an art consultant to the Burma Translation Society in Rangoon. During his stay in Burma, he also worked with UNESCO to organize and conduct seminars for publishers from five Southeast Asian countries. In 1963 he was recruited by Southwest Missouri State University at Springfield to s