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- William Howard Armstrong (September 14, – April 11, ) was an American writer of children's literature and educator, best known for his novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.
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- Born on September 14, , in the Shenandoah Valley near Lexington, Virginia, William H. Armstrong graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in He married Martha Williams in —they were the parents of two boys and a girl.
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- William Howard Armstrong (September 14, – April 11, ) was an American writer of children's literature and educator, best known for his novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.
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- William Howard Armstrong (September 14, – April 11, ) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.
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| William Howard Armstrong was an American writer of children's literature and educator, best known for his 1969 novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal. | |
| William H. Armstrong () William H. Armstrong was born September 14, near Lexington, Virginia. | |
| Born on September 14, 1911, in the Shenandoah Valley near Lexington, Virginia, William H. Armstrong graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1936. |
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William Howard Armstrong (September 14, &#;– April 11, ) was an American writer of children's literature and educator, best known for his novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.
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William Howard Armstrong was born in Lexington, Virginia in He was the third child born to Howard Gratton Armstrong, a farmer, and his wife, Ida Morris Armstrong. He had a difficult time in school, being a small child with asthma and glasses.[1]
While his father taught him to work hard, his mother taught Armstrong to love stories. "No one told me the Bible was not for young readers, so I found some exciting stories in it," Armstrong said. "Not until years later did I understand why I liked the Bible stories so much. It was because everything that could possibly be omitted [left out] was omitted. There was no description of David so I could be like David" Armstrong later used the art of omission in his own writing of So