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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 .
- Richard Atwater (1921–1948; his death)
- August 23, 1979 (aged 82), Chicago
- Florence Hasseltine Carroll, September 13, 1896, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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.
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Mr. Popper's Penguins is a children's book written by Richard and Florence Atwater, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, originally published in 1938. It tells the story of a poor house painter named Mr. Popper and his family, who live in the small town of Stillwater in the 1930s.
- United States
- Richard and Florence Atwater
- English
- Robert Lawson
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, started in….
Richard Tupper Atwater (1892-1948) was a Chicago journalist. He wrote for a number of newspapers including the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Herald-Examiner. He contributed to the literary and arts magazine The Chicagoan.
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- August 21, 1948
- December 29, 1892
Want to read. Kindle $6.59. Rate this book. Mr. Popper's Penguins. Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater, Robert Lawson (Illustrator) 3.97. 72,994 ratings3,571 reviews. The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, then get a penguin from the zoo who mates with the first penguin to have 10 baby penguins.
As Florence Carroll, she obtained her AB and MA in French literature at the University of Chicago (1920) where she was co-editor of The Chicago Literary Monthly, and student of Richard Atwater. They married in 1921 and had two children, Doris (1922–2000) and Carroll (1925–2013).
