Miguel de Cervantes: Novelist, Poet, and Playwright (Signature Lives) [Library Binding]

Don Nardo (Author)

Editorial Reviews

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Seldom does a writer’s life story include heroism in sea battles, capture by the enemy, and failed attempts to escape military prisons, but Cervantes was no ordinary author. In tracing his subject’s life and literary contributions, Nardo doesn’t hype the drama but lets it arise from the story itself, and this particularly fine entry in the Signature Lives: Renaissance Era series is stronger for that restraint. Attractive book design, good paper, and well-chosen illustrations contribute to the biography’s finesse, while a time line, glossary, source notes, and bibliographies round out the presentation. Grades 6-9. --Carolyn Phelan

About the Author

Don Nardo is a Compass Point Books author.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Library Binding: 112 pages
• Publisher: Compass Point Books (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756536758
• ISBN-13: 978-0756536756
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,541,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Don Nardo is a historian and award-winning writer who specializes in the ancient world, especially the civilizations of Greece and Rome. He began as a actor and worked with the National Shakespeare Company before turning to writing screenplays and teleplays and, soon afterward, devoting much of his time to historical research and writing. In the past two decades, he has published nearly two hundred volumes on diverse historical topics. And having earned numerous favorable reviews, he is widely recognized as the country's leading writer of historical works for young adults. He is also versed in various other subjects and as a result is frequently asked by publishers to write books on a number of scientific and literary topics.

Mr. Nardo also composes and arranges orchestral music, having started composing in his early teens. Over the years he has turned out more than eighty musical works, including 2 symphonies, 4 string quartets, several concertos, a film score, incidental music for stage productions, and several commissions, the most recent a double concerto for violin and Portuguese guitar written for two noted musicians. He is also the resident composer and arranger for the Amadis Orchestra, based in Connecticut. For more information, see his official web site at www.nardopublishing.com and his more extensive biography at Wikipedia.