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Katherine B. Shippen
Katherine Binney Shippen (April 1, 1892 - February 20, 1980) was an American history teacher, museum curator, and children’s writer.
She was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1892 to Francis and Elle...view moreKatherine Binney Shippen (April 1, 1892 - February 20, 1980) was an American history teacher, museum curator, and children’s writer.
She was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1892 to Francis and Ellen Shippen. She earned a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1914 and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1929. While studying for her master’s degree, Shippen taught history at the Beard School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Orange, New Jersey (1917-1926) and then at The Brearley School in Manhattan borough (1926-1935). She then served as the headmistress at Miss Fine’s School (now Princeton Day School) in Princeton, New Jersey, for the next nine years.
In 1945, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum named Shippen curator of the social studies department. In the same year, she published her first book, New Found World, for which she won the Newbery Honor Award. She published 21 book titles throughout her career, including The Great Heritage (1947), The Bright Design (1949) and Men, Microscopes, and Living Things (1955) (later published under the title So Many Marvels in 1968), for which she won her second Newbery Honor Award. Several of her books have been translated into Swedish, German, Polish, Spanish, and Greek editions.
Shippen died in Suffern, New York in 1980, aged 87.view less