Patricia Clapp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Patricia Clapp

American writer

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1912

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 10-Dec-2003

Profession: children's writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Patricia Clapp (June 9, 1912 – December 10, 2003) was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults.
Her first novel, Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth (1968) is based on the life of her forbear Constance Hopkins - a passenger on the Mayflower.
It was nominated for the National Book Award in 1969. Her second book, Jane-Emily (1969) was described by Sarah Lyall in the New York Times nearly 50 years after its publication as "one of the great children’s ghost stories, featuring a nasty little dead girl who is not at all pleased when a good little living girl comes to stay in her old house."Most of Clapp's novels were written as fictionalized accounts of historical events.
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Elizabeth: The Story of the First Woman Doctor (1974) focuses on the life of Elizabeth Blackwell who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
I'm Deborah Sampson: A Soldier in the War of the Revolution is loosely based on the life of Deborah Sampson, a young woman who disguised herself as a man and served in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment during the Revolutionary War.
Witches' Children: A Story of Salem (1982) and The Tamarack Tree: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg (1986) explore the history of the Salem witch trials and the Siege of Vicksburg during the Civil War, respectively.