Talk:Scott O'Dell

His original name
Why did Scott O Dell Change his apperencew —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.9.85.254 (talk • contribs) 19:41, 27 March 2007


 * Answer: In one of Scott's early writings, a typesetter spelled Odell with and apostrophe. Scott liked the way the typesetter had spelled it and went on to legally change his name. Now you see his name spelled O'Dell. i hope that answers your question. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.43.167.178 (talk • contribs) 18:40, 13 May 2007


 * Did the typesetter make Odell/O'dell/O'Dell a surname?
 * The US Library of Congress (footer link LCCN) gives Odell Gabriel Scott --given name (surname Scott), no apostrophe, lowercase D.
 * --P64 (talk) 20:10, 10 February 2013 (UTC)


 * We need a source. Prefer one that clarifies all :–) P64 (talk) 19:33, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Works
The lead is unusually precise, specifying "26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books."

We now list 1 nonfiction, 5 series books, and 28 other novels (sum 34, compare 33 above). Which of the 33=5+28 series books and other novels are not for young people? Which are nonfiction? Either the precise counts or the list should be corrected and the few novels for adults and nonfiction books should be identified, at minimum by symbol (such as ‡, †) within the list.

Do parenthetical notes within the titles represent subtitles?

Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction says that O'Dell won the award in 1987, not 1986, "for Streams to the River, River to the Sea, his fictional retelling of the story of Sacagawea". At least that much information should somehow be provided here, at least.

--P64 (talk) 19:50, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

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Official website?
Here among External links we have listed an "official website" ScottOdell.com whose linkname I have changed to "ScottOdell.com". What is its status? For instance, is it the official website of a descendant named "Scott Odell"? --P64 (talk) 20:24, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Current version ScottOdell.com contains statement:
 * "Copyright © 2017 Scott O'Dell - All Rights Reserved. Contact Us."
 * where the last two words are a mailto link with eddress (?) ScottOdellFanClub (from memory, now misplaced). --P64 (talk) 20:32, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

widow Elizabeth Hall
Notes on S.O. widow Elizabeth Hall (born 1929)

An older version of website ScottOdell.com (archived 2014-10-15) contains a link to the site of S.O. widow Elizabeth Hall. In turn ElizabethHall.net (archived 2014-11-11) states copyright "(c)2002; 2009" and "Last Updated: July 11, 2009. From its Biography page: "About Elizabeth Hall [subtitle] ... "She also administers the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, established by Scott before his death."

ElizabethHall.net lists her Books:
 * for adults: multiple college textbooks in psychology and two other nonfiction, Growing and Changing (1988) and Seasons of Life (1990)
 * for children: three fiction (1967 to 1971), three surveys in psychology (1973 to 1977), and three fiction since Scott Odell's death (1992 to 1996)

, and at WorldCat.

--P64 (talk) 20:25, 15 December 2022 (UTC)