All Aboard for Freedom!
Year of Publication |
1954
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Publication Type |
Novel
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Number of Pages or Episodes |
259 p.
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Language |
English
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Contributors |
Author:
Marie McSwigan |
Publisher |
E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc.
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City |
New York
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Abstract |
War orphans steal a train and drive it from Communist Czechoslovakia to American-occupied Germany.
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Author Biography |
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 Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Sun-Telegram. 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 Sky Hooks of John Kane, the primitive painter. McSwigan died of leukemia in 1962 and is buried in Pittsburgh's Calvary Cemetery.
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Time |
1940s
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