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Howard Pease


Born
in Stockton, CA, The United States
September 06, 1894

Died
April 14, 1974


Howard Pease was an American writer of adventure stories from Stockton, California. Most of his stories revolved around a young protagonist, Joseph Todhunter ("Tod") Moran, who shipped out on tramp freighters during the interwar years.
Pease received two literary awards during his lifetime. In 1944, he received the California Commonwealth Book Award for his novel Thunderbolt House (reprinted by Scholastic as Mystery at Thunderbolt House, published that year, and in 1946 he was awarded the Children's Book Award from the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education "for a book that deals realistically with problems in the child's world" for his novel Heart of Danger.
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Average rating: 4.02 · 487 ratings · 90 reviews · 143 distinct worksSimilar authors
Thunderbolt House

4.17 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1944 — 8 editions
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The Tattooed Man

4.04 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1926 — 4 editions
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Jinx Ship

4.15 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1927 — 12 editions
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Shanghai Passage

4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1929 — 3 editions
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The Ship Without a Crew

3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1934 — 5 editions
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The Black Tanker

4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1941 — 12 editions
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Heart of Danger

4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1946 — 2 editions
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Long Wharf: A Story of Youn...

4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1939 — 3 editions
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Captain of the Araby: The S...

4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1953
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Wind in the Rigging

3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1935
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