Milton Meltzer was a historian and an author who wrote nonfictional books for young people. Meltzer wrote nearly 100 books for kids, and for his contribution in kid literature he received the American Library Association’s Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. He wrote books such as Never to Forget (1976), Ten queens (1998), The American Revolutionaries (1987), Rescue (1988), Slavery (1971), and many more. Meltzer also wrote biographies about other people such as Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, and others. (The New York Times)
Meltzer’s Life Milton Meltzer was born to Benjamen and Mary Meltzer on May 8, 1915 in Worcester, Massachusetts. His parents were immigrants from Austria. They moved to America in 1904 and 1900. Meltzer wasn’t the only child, he had two other siblings. When Meltzer was five he attended the Union Hill School. He loved learning how to read, write, add and subtract. His expertise was spelling. He won many school prizes and was even in an citywide competition, but was never put in a national competition. Meltzer attended Grafton Street Junior High at the age of 12. He made A’s and B’s and started to lose some of his shyness. At one point at this time he was told he had to wear glasses. Meltzer started to work while he was in junior high to help
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Hughes was willing to work with Meltzer surprisingly. Langston thought that the book was a good idea, long overdue and badly needed. Meltzer and Hughes named the project A Pictorial History of the Negro in America. Meltzer did all the picture research and wrote the captions. Langston’s agent showed the half-done work to the publishers. About ten publishers turned down the project, they said things like “Blacks don’t read” and “Whites won’t be interested”. Confidentially, Meltzer and Hughes kept working in the hopes that one day their book will be published. (Writing