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(1906-2008) Author. Ellen Tarry was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and died in New York, New York.

Full Name

Ellen Tarry

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1906

BIRTH

Ellen Tarry was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1906.

1929

RESIDENCE

Ms. Tarry moved to New York City in 1929. She became involved with the Bank Street School in Manhattan, New York.

1940

LITWORK

Janie Belle
New York, New York: Garden City Publishing.

Children's book; illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon.

1942

LITWORK

Hezekiah Horton
New York, New York: Viking Press.

Children's book; illustrated by Oliver Harrington.

1946

LITWORK

My Dog Rinty
New York, New York: Viking Press.

Children's book; co-written with Marie Hall Ets, and illustrated by Alexander and Alexandra Alland.

1950

LITWORK

The Runaway Elephant
New York, New York: Viking Press.

Children's book; illustrated by Oliver Harrington.

1955

LITWORK

The Third Door: The Autobiography Of An American Negro Woman
New York, New York: McKay.

Autobiography.

1958

LITWORK

Katherine Drexel: Friend Of The Neglected
New York, New York: Farrar, Straus.

Biography; illustrated by Donald
Bolognese.

1963

LITWORK

Martin de Porres: Saint Of The New World
Coos Bay, Oregon: Vision Books.

Biography; illustrated by James Fox.

1967

LITWORK

Young Jim: The Early Years Of James Weldon Johnson
New York City: Dodd.

Biography.

1981

LITWORK

The Other Toussaint: A Modern Biography Of Pierre Toussaint, A Post-Revolutionary Black
Boston: St. Paul Editions.

1998

LITWORK

Pierre Toussaint: Apostle Of Old New York
Boston.

Biography.

2008

DEATH

Ellen Tarry died in 2008 in New York City.

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