H. M. Hoover

Helen Mary Hoover
Born	April 5, 1935 Stark County, Ohio, USA
Occupation	Writer
Period	1969–present
Genre	Children's fiction, science fiction

Helen Mary Hoover (born April 5, 1935) is an American children's writer. Most of her science fiction is for older children and often features friendships between those of different generations. Her 1996 novel The Winds of Mars tied for the Golden Duck Awards Hal Clement division for Young adult literature.^[1]

Published books

• Children of Morrow (1973)
• The Lion's Cub (1974) – historical novel set in the court of Nicholas I of Russia, LCCN 74-8594
• Treasures of Morrow (1976)
• The Delikon (1977)
• The Rains of Eridan (1977)
• The Lost Star (1979)
• This Time of Darkness (1980)
• Return to Earth: a novel of the future (1980)
• Another Heaven, Another Earth (1981)
• The Bell Tree (1982)
• The Shepherd Moon: a novel of the future (1984)
• Orvis (1987)
• The Dawn Palace: The Story of Medea (1988)
• Away Is a Strange Place to Be (1990)
• Only Child (1992)
• The Winds of Mars (1995)
• Whole Truth—and Other Myths: retelling Ancient Tales, with commentaries by Carla McK. Brenner and William James Williams (National Gallery of Art, 1996), LCCN 96-47313

References

• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, page 585; (3rd edition, online)

1. Golden Duck Awards.

External links

• H. M. Hoover at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• H. M. Hoover biography at Ohio Reading Road Trip (orrt.org)
• H. M. Hoover at Library of Congress Authorities, with 24 catalog records