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9780152165925
Mary Ann Hoberman was born on August 12, 1930, in Stamford, Connecticut to Dorothy (Miller) and Milton Freedman. She attended the Stamford public schools, where she wrote for her school newspapers and edited her high school yearbook. In 1951 she received a B.A. in history from Smith College and, thirty-five years later an M.A. in English Literature from Yale University. She married Norman Hoberman, an architect and artist, in 1951. They have four children, all in the arts - Diane, Perry, Chuck, and Meg - and five grandchildren. The Hobermans have lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, for over forty years in a house that Norman designed.Mary Ann Hoberman has taught writing and literature from the elementary through the college level. She co-founded and performed with both "The Pocket People", a children's theatre group, and "Women's Voices", a group giving dramatized poetry readings. But ever since her first book was published in 1957, her primary occupation has been writing for children. She received a National Book Award in 1983 and the 2003 Poetry for Children Award of the National Council of Teachers of English.Hoberman, Mary Ann is the author of 'I'm Going To Grandma's ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780152165925 and ISBN 0152165924.
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