Jerome M. Beatty Jr. (December 9, 1916 – July 31, 2002) was a twentieth-century

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author of

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. He was also an accomplished

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for

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. Beatty served in the

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, achieving the rank of

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, and is buried at the Massachusetts National Cemetery.

Popular books

Arguably, Beatty's most popular works are the Matthew and Maria Looney books, a

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for children. Matthew and Maria Looney are a brother and sister who live on the

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, part of an alien civilization of people who, as it turns out, are a lot like us

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s. The

was first published in the early 1960s, at the dawn of the

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, and is clearly influenced by that era.

Selected works

Books

* ''Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth'' (1961) * ''Matthew Looney's Invasion of the Earth'' (1965) * ''Matthew Looney in the

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'' (1969) * ''Matthew Looney and the Space Pirates'' (1972) * ''Maria Looney on the Red Planet'' (1977) * ''Maria Looney and the Cosmic Circus'' (1978) * ''Maria Looney and the Remarkable

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'' (1978) * ''Bob Fulton's Amazing Soda-Pop Stretcher: An International Spy Story'' (1963) * ''Bob Fulton's Terrific Time Machine: An Adventure in Space and Time'' (1963) * ''Sex Rears Its Lovely Head: Cartoons edited from family magazines'' Bantam Books (1956) * ''Show Me The Way To Go Home'' (1959) * ''The Girls We Leave Behind'' (1963) * ''1 O'Clock in the Button Factory'' (1964) * ''Double Take'' (1971) * ''The Tunnel to Yesterday'' * ''Sheriff Stonehead and the Teen-Age Termites'' (1970) * ''From New Bedford to Siberia : A Yankee Whaleman in the Frozen North'' (1977)

Periodicals

* "Sweetheart of the A.E.F.", feature story on

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, ''

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'', December 1942 * "Collier’s Credits", '' Colliers'' Sep 17 1954, Jul 22 1955, Aug 19 1955 * "The Shuddering Truth About Pipe Smokers", ''

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'' Dec 1956 * "White House Pipeline", ''

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'' Feb 1962 * "Yes, Virginia, There Is a South Pole Santa Claus", '' Colliers'' Dec 23 1955 * "Hanging Up On Hemingway", The night Ernest talked on—no one knows how long, squire MagazineFeb 1967 * ''Have You Ever Wondered?'' Macfadden Books (1962)

References

* Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.
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External links

* * , if all his; primarily as 'Beatty, Jerome' on the previous page of the browse report 1916 births 2002 deaths American children's writers United States Army personnel of World War II United States Army non-commissioned officers Loomis Chaffee School alumni {{US-child-writer-stub