Wormser, Richard

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WORMSER, Richard

WORMSER, Richard. American, b. 1933. Genres: Young adult non-fiction. Career: Documentary filmmaker and writer of nonfiction for young adults. Also worked as a logger in the Pacific Northwest, a translator of French film treatments, a newspaper salesman in Paris, a longshoreman in London, and as a journalist for the Shamokin Citizen, Shamokin, PA. Publications: NONFICTION. FOR YOUNG ADULTS: Pinkerton: America's First Private Eye, 1990; Lifers: Learn the Truth at the Expense of Our Sorrow, 1991; Countdown to Crisis: A Look at the Middle East, 1992; Three Faces of Vietnam, 1993; The Iron Horse: How Railroads Changed America, 1993; Growing up in the Great Depression, 1994; Hoboes: Wandering in America, 1870-1940, 1994; Juveniles in Trouble, 1994; American Islam: Growing up Muslim in America, 1994; The Titanic, 1994; American Childhoods: Three Centuries of Youth at Risk, 1996. Author and producer of documentary films. Address: Videoline Productions, 1697 Broadway Room 901, New York, NY 10019, U.S.A.