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  1. Florence Atwater (1921–1948) Richard Tupper Atwater (December 29, 1892 – August 21, 1948) [1] was a Chicago writer and classics professor at the University of Chicago. He is probably best known as the co-author, with his wife Florence, of the book Mr. Popper's Penguins. He contributed to the literary and arts magazine The Chicagoan and ...

  2. Spouse. Florence Atwater (1921 – 1948) Close. Richard Tupper Atwater (December 29, 1892 – August 21, 1948) was a Chicago writer and classics professor at the University of Chicago. He is probably best known as the co-author, with his wife Florence, of the book Mr. Popper's Penguins. He contributed to the literary and arts magazine The ...

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  4. Other articles where Florence Atwater is discussed: children’s literature: Peaks and plateaus (1865–1940): Two of them—Florence and Richard Atwater—worked as a pair. Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humour that few children or adults can resist. The third writer is Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her Little House books, nine in all ...

  5. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous. Mr. Popper's Penguins, written by Florence and Richard Atwater, was written in 1938. It is a children's classic now. Richard Atwater wrote the book before he fell ill with a stroke and was disabled, where his wife, Florence Atwater finished and revised the book for him.

  6. Other articles where Richard Atwater is discussed: children’s literature: Peaks and plateaus (1865–1940): Two of them—Florence and Richard Atwater—worked as a pair. Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humour that few children or adults can resist. The third writer is Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her Little House books, nine in all ...

  7. Other articles where Mr. Popper’s Penguins is discussed: children’s literature: Peaks and plateaus (1865–1940): Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humour that few children or adults can resist. The third writer is Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her Little House books, nine in all, started in 1932 with The Little House in the Big Woods. The…

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