![]() ![]() In May 1919, Kelly was shipped across Germany to the newly recognised state of Poland in a closed boxcar along with the Polish troops. ![]() He found himself in charge of athletics and entertainment for 2,000 Polish soldiers in Haller's Army. Īfter "ten colorless, uneventful, and discouraging years working on newspapers", Kelly volunteered in 1918 to work with the welfare organisation Les Foyers du Soldat in Quentin, France. As a student, Kelly was a member of the French club and one of the first members of The Pukwana Club, which would eventually transition into the Delta Beta chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity. Kelly graduated Dartmouth College in 1906 (BA). Kelly was born in 1884 in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He won the 1929 Newbery Medal recognizing his first published book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, as the preceding year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College and briefly a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. ![]() Eric Philbrook Kelly (Ma– January 3, 1960) was an American journalist, academic and author of children's books. ![]()
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