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Born on July 8th, James Cross Giblin was, in his own words, "shy, bookish, and a little spoiled." He loved comic books and drew his own comic strips. Giblin worked on his school newspapers and wrote a play while he was at Western Reserve University. That play, My Bus Was Always Late, was published in 1954. He worked hard at writing plays, but disappointment followed.

After receiving his MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, he went to work at the British Book Centre, which proved to be his doorway into the publishing field. An associate editor at Lothrop, Lee & Shepard from 1962 to 1967, Giblin then moved to Seabury Press as editor-in-chief of its children's division, Clarion Books.

In 1989, he stepped back to the position of...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 1,967 ratings · 317 reviews · 59 distinct works

	The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler 3.69 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth 3.95 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS by James Cross Giblin, David Frampton 3.85 avg rating — 62 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Boy Who Saved Cleveland by James Cross Giblin, Michael Dooling (Illustrations) 3.30 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Many Rides Of Paul Revere 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Cross Giblin, Giblin, Michael Dooling (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Truth About Unicorns by James Cross Giblin, Michael McDermott (Illustrations) 3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Did Fleming Rescue Churchill?: A Research Puzzle by James Cross Giblin, Erik Brooks (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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