Frances Temple (August 15, 1945 – July 5, 1995) was a primary school teacher, a writer of award-winning children's stories and young adult novels and illustrator. Her carefully researched novels focus on the political and economic travails of young people across the globe. Her works have dealt with poverty and oppression in contemporary El Salvador, two novels cover strife in contemporary Haiti, one is a retelling of a folk tale from Jamaica and two novels — part of a projected trilogy — are set in the Middle Ages, in Spain and Morocco.
Frances Nolting Temple was born on August 15, 1945, in Washington, DC.[1] She grew up in Virginia, France and Vietnam as the daughter of the former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, Frederick Nolting, Jr.[2] She was in the Peace Corps in Jamaica and Ethiopia from 1969 to 1971.[3] She died on July 5, 1995, from a heart attack.
Tonight, by Sea was the 1995 winner of The Americas Award, given by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP).[5]
The Frances Nolting Temple Prize for Teaching was established in 1996 at Hobart and William Smith Colleges "to recognize her dedication to teaching, children, and the human spirit".[6]
^Bloem, Patricia L. (2006). "The Americas Award". Bookbird. 44 (1). Basel: 41–44. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
^"Endowed Funds and Awards". 2000-2002 Catalogue. Hobart and William Smith Colleges. p. 297. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
^Ammon, Bette DeBruyne and Gale W. Sherman. 1999.“Temple, Frances. Grab Hands and Run.” More Rip-roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers. Libraries Unlimited. Pp. 53-55.
^Martinez, Miriam; Marcia F. Nash (April 1995). "Bookalogues--Tiger Soup by Frances Temple". Language Arts. 72 (4): 297.
^Freeman, Evelyn B; Lehman, Barbara A; Scharer, Patricia L. (February 1997). "Tonight by Sea". The Reading Teacher. 50 (5): 426–427.