Penny Colman

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Penny Colman (born 1944 in Denver) is a widely published author of books, essays, stories, and articles for all ages. Her social history, "Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial," was named one of the 100 Best of the Best Books for the 21st Centurywho|September 2008|who awards this?."Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II" received the Orbis Pictus Honor Award for Outstanding Nonfiction and an International Reading Association’s Teachers’ Choice and Young Adult Choice.http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=5439]

Her book of essays, "Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories About Women Who Made A Difference", was named a Notable Trade Book. [http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable/] Since 2003, Colman has been a distinguished lecture at Queens College, the City University of New York. Her academic writings include, “A New Way to Look at Literature: A Visual Model for Analyzing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts,” Language Arts, 2007. [http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail?accno=EJ658964 - 17k –] She was honored by the New Jersey State Legislature for books and public appearances that have “contributed to the advancement of women.”

elected Bibliography

* Spies: Women in the Civil War, 1992.
* Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1992.
* Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight for the Vote, 1993.
* A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins, 1993.
* Madam C. J. Walker: Building a Business Empire, 1994.
* Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks, and Sewers: A History of the Bathroom, 1994.
* Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children, 1994.
* Strike: The Bitter Struggle of American Workers from Colonial Times to the Present, 1995.
* Rosie The Riveter; Women Working on the Home Front in World War II, 1995.
* Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial, 1997.
* Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America, 2000.
* Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II, 2002.
* Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories about Women Who Made a Difference, 2006.
* Thanksgiving: The True Story, 2008.

"Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial" is an illustrated social history of the subjects of death and burial across cultures written by Penny Colman. The comprehensive text, enriched with true stories both humorous and poignant, includes a list of burial sites of famous people, images in the arts associated with death, fascinating epitaphs and gravestone carvings, a chronology and a glossary, and over a hundred black-and-white photographs, most of which were taken by the author.. It was named one of the 100 Best of the Best Books for the 21st Century. [http://www.teenreads.com/features/yalsa-best-of-best.asp]

"Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on The Home Front In World War" II is an illustrated social history of the lives and contributions of women workers during World War II written by Penny Colman. There are more than sixty archival black-and-white photographs (including one of Norma Jeane Baker Dougherty, who later changed her name to Marilyn Monroe), famous posters, advertisements, and cartoons. Drawing on extensive research, the author explains the origins of the phrase “Rosie the Riveter.” There are a Select List of Women’s Wartime Jobs, Facts & Figures about Women War Workers, Chronology, and an extensive bibliography. Rosie the Riveter received the Orbis Pictus Honor Award for Outstanding Nonfiction and an International Reading Association’s Teachers’ Choice and Young Adult Choice.

References

“Autobiography Feature” in Something About the Author (2005, volume 160, pp. 49-68) http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1586/Colman-Penny-Morgan-1944.htmlhttp://www.macmillan.com/author/pennycolmanhttp://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1368 - 24k -http://www.answers.com/topic/penny-morgan-colman -