Tag: Painesville

Elizabeth Alder

Ohio Center for the Book December 10, 2020January 25, 2021

Born: 1954 Ohio connection: Birth Painesville Elizabeth A. Alder was born in 1954 in Painesville, Ohio. An award-winning author of historical fiction for children and young adults, Alder’s path toward becoming a writer has its roots in dinner table conversations with her father, a gifted storyteller who helped found the Lake County Public Defender’s Office. It …

Robert Halsall Abel

Ohio Center for the Book November 24, 2020May 27, 2022

Born: May 27, 1941Died: April 14, 2017 Ohio connection: Birth Painesville Journalist and writer of novels and short stories, Robert Halsall Abel was born in Painesville; the son of Robert H. (a textile worker) and Lora Constance Logan (a school bus driver). Robert Abel attended the College of Wooster from 1959-1964; he left college in …