George Dennison

George Dennison (1925-1987) was an American novelist and short-story author best known for "The Lives of Children", his account of the First Street School. He also wrote fiction, plays, and critical essays, most notably his novel "Luisa Domic" and a collection of shorter works, "Pierrot and Other Stories". Having grown up in a suburb of Pittsburgh, he joined the Navy during World War II, attended the New School for Social Research on the CI Bill. and took graduate courses at New York University.

Although he devoted himself primarily to his art, he also taught school for a number of years, at all levels from preschool to high school. He trained at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy with Paul Goodman and later worked with severely disturbed children as a lay therapist and teacher. His plays were produced at the Hudson Church in New York and elsewhere, and his essays and fiction appeared in many periodicals. In the late Sixties George Dennison and his wife Mabel Chrystie, the founder of the First Street School, moved to rural Maine, where they raised three children.

References

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D81139F937A25753C1A961948260 Obituary] at The New York Times

* [http://peuma.unblog.fr/2008/02/15/george-dennison-la-vida-de-los-ninos/] [The Lives of Children (in spanish) ]