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Dorothy Sterling

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born

November 23, 1913 in New York, New York, The United States

died

December 01, 2008

gender

female

genre

Children's Books, History

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Dorothy Sterling (Dannenberg) was a Jewish-American writer and historian.

She was born and grew up in New York City, attended Wellesley College, and graduated from Barnard College in 1934. After college, she worked as a journalist and writer in New York for several years. In 1937, she married Philip Sterling, also a writer. In the 1940s, she worked for Life Magazine for 8 years. In early 1968, 448 writers and editors, including Sterling, put a full-page ad in the New York Post declaring their intention to refuse to pay taxes for the Vietnam War.

Sterling was the author of more than 30 books, mainly non-fiction historical works for children on the origins of the women's and anti-slavery movements, civil rights, segregation, and nature, as well...more

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Books by Dorothy Sterling

Average rating: 3.85 · 410 ratings · 52 reviews · 22 distinct works

	Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman 3.83 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 1954 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Mary Jane 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mystery of the Empty House 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1971	My rating:
	Black Foremothers: Three Lives by Dorothy Sterling, Barbara Christian (Introduction), Margaret Walker (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Trouble They Seen: The Story Of Reconstruction In The Words Of African Americans 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Lucretia Mott 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Secret of the Old Post Box 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1960 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Speak Out In Thunder Tones: Letters And Other Writings By Black Northerners, 1787-1865 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating: