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Bio

(1947-2022) Author. Jim Murphy was born in Kearny, New Jersey, and died in Woodstock, New York.

Full Name

Jim Murphy

Locations

Ulster

Author's Timeline


1947

BIRTH

James John Patrick Murphy was born in Kearny, New Jersey, on September 25, 1947.

1978

LITWORK

Weird and Wacky Inventions
Crown Publishers, Inc.
517533189
Children's book.

1984

LITWORK

Tractors: From Yesterday's Steam Wagons to Today's Turbocharged Giants
J. B. Lippincott Company
397320515
Children's book.

1990

LITWORK

The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War
Clarion Books
899198937
Children's book.

1995

LITWORK

The Great Fire
Scholastic Press
590472674
Children's book.

2000

LITWORK

Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America
Scholastic Press
590673092
Children's book.

2003

LITWORK

The American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Clarion Books

Children's book.

2009

LITWORK

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
Scholastic Press
978-0545226288
Children's book.

2012

LITWORK

Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
Clarion Books
978-0618535743
Children's book written with Alison Blank.

2015

LITWORK

Breakthrough! How Three People Saved 'Blue Babies' and Chanaged Medicine Forever
Clarion Books
978-0547821832
Children's book.

2017

LITWORK

Revenge of the Green Banana
Clarion Books
978-0544786776
Children's book.

2022

DEATH

Jim Murphy died at his home in Woodstock, New York, on May 1, 2022.

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