His books about the Great Chicago Fire and America’s first epidemic were Newbery Honor winners.
Mr. Murphy, a former children’s book editor, wrote more than 30 books that chronicled fascinating but often bleak chapters in U.S. history. His work frequently spotlighted the lives of young people and returned to themes of determination, perseverance and compassion while telling engrossing stories of snowstorms, deadly germs and bravery on the battlefield.
. “I want my nonfiction to be as exciting and readable as any novel, so I’m always searching for topics that are inherently dramatic.” Mr. Murphy said that if his books succeeded in transporting readers into the past, it was largely because of the months or years he spent conducting research online or in archives, looking for small details and trying to capture the stories of real people like Julia Lemos, a widowed artist who saved her five children and elderly parents from the Chicago fire, and Claire Innes, a 12-year-old who was separated from her family during the chaos.
Mr. Murphy was a poor student, and said he struggled with spelling and grammar long after he started writing books. He became interested in literature while at a Catholic prep school in Newark, where one of his teacher insisted he could “absolutely, positivelyread” Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms.” “I promptly read it,” he said, “and every other book I could get a hold of that I felt would shock my teacher.
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