Gerry Alain Turner"Color Photos On Display at Edwards Office." Article in the Bridgeport Sunday Post, Bridgeport, Conn., Sep. 18, 1977, p. D-2. (1921–1982) was an American photographer and

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author. He worked under the name Gerry Turner.Turner, Gerry
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Life

Turner was born in 1921 in Westport, Connecticut, and died in 1982 in Westport, Connecticut.

Photography

Turner was a well-regarded photographer, specializing in children's portraiture and travel photography. As a portrait photographer he worked with more than one thousand families in

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, all including natural backgrounds. A series of portraits commissioned by the

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for presentation to the White House were included in a permanent collection there. His works were featured on leading magazine covers and national advertisements. The Irish Tourist Board (Fáilte Ireland) commissioned him to visit

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and photograph the country and its people; he returned to the country for several weeks each year on assignment for the Irish government shooting photographs for use by the both Tourist Board and

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, Irish International Airlines. His photography was included in the fine arts collections of various museums, and displayed in a number of one-man shows, including one in September 1977 at the Wilton, Connecticut center office of A.G. Edwards and Sons, Inc., members of the New York Stock Exchange.

Writing

Turner wrote seven books, ranging "from science-fiction and fantasy to books of adventure for young readers and practical works in photography and fine arts." Among them were one

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, ''Magic Night for Lillibet'', one

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novel, ''Stranger from the Depths'', and two works of non-fiction, ''Creative Crafts for Everyone'' and ''The Teen Model Fact Book''. His publishers included Doubleday, Viking Press, Bobbs-Merrill, Concordia Press and American Greetings.

Bibliography

Fiction

* ''Magic Night for Lillibet'' (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1959) * ''Stormy and the Tree-House Gang'' (Concordia Pub. House, 1966) = ''Stormy und die Baumhausbande'' (German, R. Brockhaus, 1971, 2nd ed., 1978) * ''Stranger from the Depths'' (Doubleday, 1967) (Scholastic (abridged), 1970) * ''Hide-out for a Horse'' (Macdonald & Co., 1968) = ''Der verstecke Schimmel'' (German, Oncken-Verl, 1968) * ''The Silver Dollar Hoard of Aristotle Gaskin'' (Doubleday, 1968)

Non-fiction

* ''Creative Crafts for Everyone'' (Viking Press, 1959) * ''The Teen Model Fact Book'' (J. Messner, 1980)

References

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* 20th-century American novelists American children's writers American fantasy writers American male novelists American science fiction writers 1921 births 1982 deaths 20th-century American male writers {{US-novelist-1920s-stub