Skorpen, Liesel ( - )

Genre: Children's Literature

Children's author Liesel Moak Skorpen was born in Germany and emigrated with her family in 1936 to the U.S. to escape Nazi oppression. She lives in Verona Island, just outside Bucksport, ME.

She attended Yale with the intention of becoming a philosophy professor, but married and became the mother of six.

Selected Bibliography

  • If I Had a Lion (1967)
  • Outside My Window (1968)
  • Than Mean Man (1968)
  • We Were Tired of Living in a House (1969)
  • All the Lassies (1970)
  • Elizabeth (1970)
  • Charles (1971)
  • Plenty for Three (1971)
  • Phipps (1972)
  • Old Arthur (1972)
  • Kisses and Fishes (1974)
  • Mandy's Grandmother (1975)
  • Michael (1975)
  • Bird (1976)
  • His Mother's Dog (1978)
  • Grace (1984)