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American biographer and author (1929–2018)

For those of a similar name, see Russell Freeman (disambiguation).

Russell A.

Freedman (October 11, 1929 – March 16, 2018) was an American biographer and the author of nearly 50 books for young people. He may be best known for winning the 1988 Newbery Medal with his work Lincoln: A Photobiography.^[3]

Biography

Books were an important part of Freedman's life.

His father worked for a company, and his mother worked in a bookstore.

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He attended college first at San Jose State University.

Later, Freedman worked as a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in San Francisco until the mid-1950s, when he took an advertising job in Manhattan. It was during this time that Freedman wrote his first novel after reading an article about a blind teenage boy who invented a Braille typewriter.

The book, Teenagers Who Made History, was published in 1961. After its publication, Freedman quit his job and be