Benjamin Franklin

by Robin McKown

THE AUTHOR

Robin McKown was born in Denver and attended the University of Colorado, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois. She sold her first one-act play to a literary magazine while she was still in college, and later won a drama prize at the University of Colorado. She has worked in public relations, with a literary agency, and prepared radio scripts. Mrs. McKown is the author of Thomas Paine and Marie Curie, both in the Lives to Remember series, as well as Publicity Girl and Foreign Service Girl. She makes her home in New York City.

Other Books by Robin McKown

THOMAS PAINE MARIE CURIE FOREIGN SERVICE GIRL PUBLICITY GIRL ROOSEVELT’S AMERICA WASHINGTON’S AMERICA THE FABULOUS ISOTOPES GIANT OF THE ATOM: Ernest Rutherford SHE LIVED FOR SCIENCE: Irène Joliot-Curie JANINE THE ORDEAL OF ANNE DEVLIN AUTHOR’S AGENT PAINTER OF THE WILD WEST: Frederick Remington PIONEERS IN MENTAL HEALTH