Liesel Moak Skorpen

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Liesel Moak Skorpen was a German-born children's author. Ms. Skorpen moved to the United States at a young age.

Her works include , , , Elizabeth and . Her illustrator for Old Arthur was Wallace Tripp.

Born in Germany, to Walter and Elizabeth Moak, she came to the US with her family, was raised and educated in Cleveland, Ohio.^[1] Liesel graduated from Wells College, Aurora, New York, and went on to Yale University where, while studying philosophy, she met a scholar named . When he completed his Ph.D. in philosophy, they wed and moved to Nevada to start their family. Together, Liesel and Erling built a family of seven children, two of whom they adopted, one from Korea and the other off an Indian reservation. After suffering the loss of a young son, Per Anders, they moved to Maine - See more at: http://obituaries.bangordailynews.com/obituaries/bdnmaine/obituary.aspx?pid=164727431#fbLoggedOut

Selected bibliography[]

• Outside My Window (Coward-McCann, 1968) (illustrated by Mercer Mayer) ISBN 0-06-050774-8 (for the 2004 reprint)
• That Mean Man (Harper & Row, 1968) (illustrated by Emily McCully)
• We Were Tired of Living in a House (Coward-McCann, 1969 version illustrated by Doris Burn ISBN 0-698-30394-6, hardcover to be reprinted in 2021 by Purple House Press with Doris Burn's illustrations ISBN 9781948959292, and reprinted by Putnam in 1999 with illustrations by , ISBN 0-399-23016-5)
• Elizabeth (Harper & Row, 1970) (illustrated by ) ISBN 0-06-025708-3
• All the Lassies (Dial Press, 1970)(illustrated by )
• Charles (Harper & Row, 1971) (illustrated by Martha G. Alexander) ISBN 0-06-025712-1
• Plenty For Three (Coward-McCann, 1971) (illustrated by Margot Tomes)
• Old Arthur (World's Work, 1973) (illustrated by Wallace Tripp) ISBN 0-437-74673-9
• Mandy's Grandmother (Dial Press, 1975) (illustrated by Martha G. Alexander) ISBN 0-8037-4962-7
• Michael (Harper & Row, 1975)(illustrated by ) ISBN 0-06-025719-9
• Bird (HarperCollins, 1976) (illustrated by Joan Sandin) ISBN 0-06-025693-1
• His Mother's Dog (Harper & Row, 1978) (illustrated by ) ISBN 0-06-025722-9

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Author biography [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]