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Alan W. Armstrong

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born

December 15, 1939 in The United States

gender

male

genre

Children's Books, Historical Fiction

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Alan Armstrong grew up around books and worked in a friend's bookstore beginning at age eight. As an adult, he has continued in the bookseller's trade and has also become a writer, with several children's books to his credit. Armstrong's novel Whittington retells the English folktale "Dick Whittington and His Cat," by transporting the story across the Atlantic Ocean to the author's native New England.

He started volunteering in a friend's bookshop when he was eight. At 14, he was selling books at Brentano's. As an adult, every so often, he takes to the road in a VW bus named Zora to peddle used books. He is the editor of Forget Not Mee & My Garden, a collection of the letters of Peter Collinson, the 18th-century mercer and amateur botani...more

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Books by Alan W. Armstrong

Average rating: 3.13 · 102 ratings · 33 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Raleigh's Page 3.26 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Looking for Marco Polo by Alan W. Armstrong, Tim Jessell (Illustrator) 2.95 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Regards, Rodeo: The Mariner Dog Of Cassis 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Starting from Silver Spring 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994	My rating: