Edward Tripp: Difference between revisions

{{short description|American writer}}

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'''Edward Tripp''' (March 9, 1920, [[National City, California]] – April 6, 1999, [[Franklin, North Carolina]]) lived in [[Hamden, Connecticut]] and died in 1999 at the age of 79.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E4D81538F93AA35757C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=|title=Edward Tripp, 79, Creator of New York Encyclopedia, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 April 1999|last1=Ravo|first1=Nick}}</ref> He worked as a children's literature author, and an editor at Thomas Y. Crowell before becoming editor-in-chief at Yale University Press.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tripp, Edward.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123131145|title=The Meridian handbook of classical mythology|date=2007|publisher=Plume|others=Tripp, Edward.|isbn=978-0-452-00927-1|location=New York, N.Y.|oclc=123131145}}</ref> He is best known for his books ''The Tin Fiddle'' (1954) (illustrated by [[Maurice Sendak]]) and ''The New Tuba'' (1955) (illustrated by [[Veronica Reed]]), as well as his work on the Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology (1970), previously titled Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Harmon|first1=Daniel P.|last2=Tripp|first2=Edward|date=1974|title=Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4348080|journal=The Classical World|language=en|volume=67|issue=6|pages=404|doi=10.2307/4348080|jstor=4348080}}</ref> The Crowell\Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology functions as a reader's companion to classical mythology and is formatted as an alphabetical encyclopedia that offers direct transliteration of Greek mythology.

[[Category:People from Hamden, Connecticut]]