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Believed to be the youngest movelist ever published is Toronto's 11-year-old William Robson
Believed to be the youngest movelist ever published is Toronto's 11-year-old William Robson

Believed to be the youngest movelist ever published is Toronto's 11-year-old William Robson

Date8/12/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Believed to be the youngest movelist ever published is Toronto's 11-year-old William Robson. His first work, due to be brought out Sept. 26 by New Press, is actually a trio of pint-sized adventure tales, complete with tables of contents, footnotes, forewords, afterwords and illustrations - all by the author himself. The young writer is shown here busy at his father's well-used typewriter at family's cottage near Georgian Bay - his father being John M. Robson, the professor who wrote The Hmnnn Retort.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0077109F
Believed to be the youngest competitor to complete the 26-mile marathon in the 95-year history of the Toronto Police Games, 8-year-old Bruce Lorimer r(...)
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Boy author William Robson had no trouble writing his soon-to-be-published novel for children, a trilogy called Earth II
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William Robson at the age of 9 both wrote and illustrated his fantasy trilogy for children
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