AKA Walter Dumaux Edmonds

Born: 15-Jul-1903
Birthplace: Boonville, NY
Died: 24-Jan-1998
Location of death: Concord, MA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Drums Along the Mohawk

Father: (patent attorney)
Sister: Mary Elizabeth Edmonds
Wife: Eleanor Livingston Stetson (m. 1930, d. 1956, one son, two daughters)
Son: Peter Bulkeley Edmonds
Daughter: Eleanor Livingston Cogswell
Daughter: Sarah May Edmonds Broley
Wife: Katharine May Howe Baker-Carr (m. 1956, d. 1989)

    High School: Choate Rosemary Hall
    University: AB, Harvard University (1926)
    Administrator: Board of Overseers, Harvard University (1944-50)

    Newbery Medal 1942 for The Matchlock Gun

Author of books:
Rome Haul (1929, novel)
The Big Barn (1930, novel)
Erie Water (1933, novel)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1936, novel)
Chad Hanna (1940, novel)
The Matchlock Gun (1941, novel)
Young Ames (1942, novel)
The Wedding Journey (1947, novel)
In the Hands of the Senecas (1947, novel)
The Boyds of Black River (1953, novel)
The Musket and the Cross (1968)
The South African Quirt (1985, novel)
Bert Breen's Barn (1991, juvenile novel)

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