Talk:Richard Peck (writer)

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what is Richard Pecks middle name? john

Genres
How well or poorly do these genre (generic?) labels fit Peck's work? both in general, and specifically the Edwards Award-cited works: Are You in the House Alone? (1976) The Ghost Belonged to Me (1976) Ghosts I Have Been (1977) Father Figure (1978) Secrets of the Shopping Mall (1979) Remembering the Good Times (1985)
 * crime fiction
 * horror fiction
 * mystery fiction
 * occult detective fiction
 * supernatural fiction
 * thriller (genre)
 * weird fiction

Evidently he wrote some ghost stories :-)

catalogs ten of his books and a few stories. As I understand the database and the genres, ISFDB does not thoroughly cover horror or supernatural fiction, or ghost stories, and does not even wave at crime or mystery fiction, or detective stories.

--P64 (talk) 02:42, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Works
I deleted the latest nonfiction entries The former is by Sid Fleischman. I do not readily find any hits for the latter, Nothing Story, or Nothing(s) Toy as the title of any recent book, nor is there any similar listing in the Library of Congress Catalog http://catalog.loc.gov
 * 2007: Escape! The Story Of The Great Houdini
 * 2009: Nothing stoy

Relying on LCCatalog and a few bookdealer pages I added one Novel (1981: Close Enough to Touch) and augmented the Anthologies and Nonfiction sections.
 * [Having used this space as a scratchpad I refashion it as a record of bibliog sources for Works except Novels.]


 * Numerical external links refer to book page in LCCat
 * Anthologies
 * 1966: [add] Edge of Awareness: 25 Contemporary Essays
 * 1970: Sounds and Silences: Poems For Now
 * 1971: Mindscapes: Poems for the Real World --LCCat omits to identify him as editor but one bookdealer notes "Poets include: John Updike, W.H. Auden, Rod McKuen, Robert Frost and Phyllis Gottlieb." http://www.abebooks.com/Mindscapes-Poems-Real-World-Peck-Richard/1205669705/bd
 * 1973: [not in LCCat] Leap Into Reality: Essays For Now http://www.worldcat.org/title/leap-into-reality-essays-for-now/oclc/1842580
 * 1976: [not in LCCat] Pictures That Storm Inside My Head (poetry anthology, editor) http://www.worldcat.org/title/pictures-that-storm-inside-my-head-poems-for-the-inner-you/oclc/2790616&referer=brief_results
 * 2004: Past Perfect, Present Tense (short story collection)
 * Nonfiction
 * 1972: [add] Consumer's guide
 * 1973: [not 1971] Creative word http://www.worldcat.org/title/creative-word/oclc/701395
 * 1974: Transitions
 * 1974: Urban studies
 * 1975: [add] Housing
 * 1987: [relocate from novels] [not in LCCat] Write a Tale of Terror (28pp, illustrated) WorldCat (32pp, dealer category Writing & Learning Guides, ISBN 0913839604) http://www.bookdepository.com/Write-Tale-Terror-Richard-Peck/9780913839607 (OFallon, MO: Book Lures) https://isbndb.com/d/publisher/book_lures.html?start_item=21 --which hints perhaps by series editor/compiler Nancy Polette with terror writer Richard Peck
 * 1991: (1995 ppb) Anonymously Yours (autobiography)
 * 1994: Love and Death at the Mall: Teaching and Writing for the Literate Young
 * 2002: Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young

Delacorte Press, Dial Press, and Laurel Leaf Library were imprints of Dell (later Doubleday Dell, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Random House). Those imprints and Random House English cover most of the anthologies and nonfiction.


 * The Anthologies (1966-76, how many primarily for the schools market?) and the 1972-75 nonfiction reveal an early career that should be covered in prose. He left teaching in 1971, we say, but it appears that he did not become a full-time children's novelist until 1976, perhaps with the success of The Ghost Belonged to Me (1975). --the first Blossom Culp book, promptly adapted on screen, and our only book article until 1998.
 * --P64 (talk) 17:33, 15 March 2013 (UTC)