Jim Kjelgaard

Infobox Writer
name = Jim Kjelgaard
birthdate = birth date|1910|12|6|mf=y
birthplace = New York City, New York, United States
deathdate = death date and age|1959|7|12|1910|12|6|mf=y
deathplace = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
occupation = author
nationality = American
period = 1938 to 1959
genre = juvenile fiction (novels), children's literature, young adult literature
subject = animals, outdoors
notableworks = Big Red

James Arthur Kjelgaard (December 6, 1910–July 12, 1959) [Citation
last =
first =
contribution = KJELGAARD, James Arthur 1910-1959
year = 1992
title = Contemporary Authors
editor-last = Trosky
editor-first = Susan M & Donna Olendorf
volume = v. 137
pages = pp 250-252
place=
publisher = Gale Research
id = , as reproduced on [http://home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/biograph.htm Kjelgaard tribute site] . Note that some sources give December 10 as birth date, e.g. [http://home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/bigwoods.htm this biographical sketch] .] was an American author of young adult literature.

Born in New York City, New York, Jim Kjelgaard is the author of more than forty novels, the most famous of which is 1945's "Big Red." It sold 225,000 copies by 1956 [Citation
last = Doyle
first = Brian
contribution = A Small Note About Big Red
year = Spring 1999
title = American Scholar
editor-last =
editor-first =
volume = 68.2
pages = 134
place=
publisher = Academic OneFile
id = ] and was made into a 1962 Walt Disney film with the same title, "Big Red". His books were primarily about dogs and wild animals, often with animal protagonists and told from the animal's point of view.

Jim Kjelgaard committed suicide in 1959, after suffering for several years from chronic pain and depression. [Citation
last = Drakula
first = Dave
contribution = Jim Kjelgaard - From the Bigwoods to Hollywood
year = July/September 1990
title = Mountain Journal
editor-last =
editor-first =
volume = Vol. 8, No. 4
pages =
place=
publisher =
id = reprinted on [http://home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/bigwoods.htm Kjelgaard tribute site] ]

List of works

* "Forest Patrol" (1941)
* "Rebel Siege" (1943)
* "Big Red" (1945)
* "Buckskin Brigade" (1947)
* "Snow Dog" (1948)
* "Kalak of the Ice" (1949)
* "A Nose for Trouble" (1949)
* "Wild Trek" (1950)
* "Chip the Dam Builder" (1950)
* "Irish Red, Son of Big Red" (1951)
* "Fire-hunter" (1951)
* "The Explorations of Pere Marquette" (1951)
* "Trailing Trouble" (1952)
* "Outlaw Red, Son of Big Red" (1953)
* "The Spell of the White Sturgeon" (1953)
* "The Coming of the Mormons" (1953)
* "Haunt Fox" (1954)
* "Cracker Barrel Trouble Shooter" (1954)
* "Lion Hound" (1955)
* "The Lost Wagon" (1955)
* "Desert Dog" (1956)
* "Trading Jeff and his Dog" (1956)
* "Wildlife Cameraman" (1957)
* "Cochise, Chief of Warriors (1957)
* "Double Challenge" (1957)
* "We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run" (1957)
* "Wolf Brother" (1957)
* "Swamp Cat" (1957)
* "Rescue Dog of the High Pass" (1958)
* "The Land is Bright" (1958)
* "The Black Fawn" (1958)
* "The Story of Geronimo" (1958)
* "Hi Jolly" (1959)
* "Stormy" (1959)
* "Ulysses & his Woodland Zoo" (1960)
* "Boomerang Hunter" (1960)
* "The Duck-footed Hound" (1960)
* "Tigre" (1961)
* "Hidden Trail" (1962)
* "Fawn in the Forest & other Wild Animal Stories" (1962)
* "Two Dogs & a Horse" (1964)
* "Furious Moose of the Wilderness" (1965)
* "Dave and his Dog, Mulligan" (1966)
* "Coyote Song" (1969)

References

External links

* [http://home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm Website on Jim Kjelgaard]
* [http://www.hstreasures.com/authors/kjelgaard.html HS Treasures bio of Kjelgaard]