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Ipcar, Robert ( - )
Genre: Children's Literature, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult
Robert Ipcar -- photographer, former columnist and contributing editor for Film Crew Magazine, and science fiction author -- is a Maine native living in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, with his family. His mother is Maine artist Dahlov Ipcar.
In the 1970s he was photographer for a children's book series called What Can She Be (text by Gloria and Esther Goldreich), depicting working women in what were then considered unconventional careers. He has also written a science fiction trilogy called the Children of Orion.
Selected Bibliography
What Can She Be? series
- What Can She Be? A Veterinarian (1972)
- What Can She Be? A Lawyer (1973)
- What Can She Be? A Newscaster (1973)
- What Can She Be? An Architect (1974)
- What Can She Be? A Musician (1975)
- What Can She Be? A Police Officer (1975)
- What Can She Be? A Farmer (1976)
- What Can She Be? A Geologist (1976)
- What Can She Be? A Film Producer (1977)
- What Can She Be? A Legislator (1978)
- What Can She Be? A Computer Scientist (1979)
Children of Orion Trilogy
- Children of Orion (2001)
- The Timeweaver (?)
- Return To Ash'elon (?)
