Donald J. Sobol
Donald J. Sobol was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from the Fieldston School in New York City in 1942 and joined the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. After the war, he got a degree from Oberlin College. He worked in New York for several years, working his way up from copy boy to reporter for the New York Sun, and then working for the New York Daily News, and worked there for two years. In the 1950s he moved to Miami to pursue writing full-time. He started writing the Two-Minute Mysteries series in 1959, and he started writing his popular Encyclopedia Brown mystery series for children in 1963. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him a Special Edgar Award for his Encyclopedia Brown series in 1975. In addition to his very popular books for children, Sobol wrote several nonfiction books, and he wrote and contributed to magazines under a variety of pen names. The 29th -- and final -- book in the Encyclopedia Brown series was published three months after Sobol's death in 2012.
Books
- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective 1963
- Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All 1979
- Two-Minute Mysteries Collection 2004
- Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again 1976
- Encyclopedia Brown takes the cake! 1983
- Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case 1973
- Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man 1967
- Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues 1966
- Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day 1970
- Encyclopedia Brown Carries On 1980
- Encyclopedia Brown sets the pace 1982
- The Book of Children's Classics
- Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down 1971
- Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way 1972
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles 1975
- More Two Minute Mysteries 1979
- Encyclopedia Brown 1976
- Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace 1969
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor 1977
- Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand 1974
- Imagine
- Encyclopedia Brown, Super Sleuth 2009
