Jim Thorpe by Guernsey Van Riper Jr

Jim Thorpe by Guernsey Van Riper Jr

Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion is Guemsey Van Riper Jr.'s biography of a world-class athlete.

A biography of the Native American known as one of the best all-round athletes in history, for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner as well as an outstanding professional football and basebell player.

Guernsey Van Riper, Jr. attended DePauw University in 1926. He earned two varsity letters as quarterback on the football team and one letter as a first baseman on the baseball team. After graduating, he worked in advertising then became an editor at Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company. He turned his love of sports into books, writing biographies of Lou Gehrig and Knute Rockne along with ten other children’s books.

Dwight Graydon “Gray” Morrow (1934–2001) was an American illustrator who contributed to many comics and children’s books. He was the cocreator of Marvel Comics’ the Man-Thing and DC Comics’ vigilante El Diablo.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780020421405
ISBN 10	0020421400
Title	Jim Thorpe
Author	Guernsey Van Riper Jr
Series	Childhood Of Famous Americans
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
Year published	1986-10-31
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.