TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - immigrants
KW - Germany
KW - World War II
KW - Slovak Americans
KW - Czech Americans
KW - orphans
KW - refugees
KW - nuns
KW - trains
AU - Marie McSwigan
AB - War orphans steal a train and drive it from Communist Czechoslovakia to American-occupied Germany.
C1 - 1940s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh
C4 - Children’s; War; Immigrant; Adventure
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - War orphans steal a train and drive it from Communist Czechoslovakia to American-occupied Germany.
PB - E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc.
PP - New York
PY - 1954
RN - Marie McSwigan (1896-1962), born and raised in Pittsburgh, was a publicist, newspaper journalist, biographer, and novelist. After graduation from the University of Pittsburgh in 1919, she wrote for the <em>Pittsburgh Press</em> and <em>Pittsburgh Sun-Telegram</em>. She later was publicist for Kennywood Park and the Carnegie Institute Department of Fine Arts before in 1941 becoming Director of News Services and Director of Publications for the University of Pittsburgh. In 1947 she became a full-time writer. Her first book was a 1938 biography called <em>Sky Hooks</em> of John Kane, the primitive painter. McSwigan died of leukemia in 1962 and is buried in Pittsburgh's Calvary Cemetery.
EP - 259 p.
TI - All Aboard for Freedom!
ER -