4/5/2023 0 Comments Secret agents fourStill, “Encyclopedia Brown” has starred in an HBO series and a comic strip. However, disputes over the character rights made it impossible for the movie to be commissioned. Over the years, many Hollywood producers including the likes of Ridley Scott expressed an interest in making the novels into a film. “Encyclopedia Brown” would become a mainstay in children’s fiction that the character became a spoof in the “Second Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book, “Cracked” and the “Onion.” The novels also won him a Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. While he rarely posed for photos or gave interviews, his creations became huge even though he never became a big name such as JK Rowling of the Harry Potter novels. However, he did not achieve much success initially as he got more than twelve rejections from different publishers before he found a publisher willing to give him a chance. However, Brown was perhaps the fantasy character that did things he would have wanted to do as a fifth-grader.ĭonald Sobol cracked out” Boy Detective,” the first of the series in just a fortnight. He believed he was the most unqualified to write a novel since he had a very good and privileged childhood. As for the lead in his novels, Sobol has said that “Encyclopedia Brown” was not inspired by any of his life experiences. While that was not the book he wanted, it gave him an idea and thus was born the solutions at the end of his novels. The fourth was a puzzle book with solutions on one side and puzzles on the other. He had asked the desk clerk to give him four books but he got three books correct and the fourth one wrong. This formatting convention came to Donald when he went to the New York Public Library with his father to conduct some research. The author then provides the solutions to the mysteries in the stories at the end of each novel. Each of Sobol’s novels in the “Encyclopedia Brown” mystery series comes with ten mysteries that the readers try to resolve. He often helps his father to resolve a range of criminal mysteries and he gets his “Encyclopedia” name from the fact that he is so smart that one would think he has an encyclopedia in his head. Sobol introduced his lead protagonist Leroy Brown as an intrepid 10-year-old amateur detective that is the son of the chief of police in town. In 1963, he penned the first of the “Encyclopedia Brown” series “Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective.” Since he started publishing, the novels have been printed every year and have now been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 1959, he started writing the “Two Minute” series which was a syndicated series that proved very popular as it ran for more than a decade. He then quit and moved to Florida to become a full-time author. In 1949, he was offered a job at the New York Daily News a job that he held for two years before he left to go become a buyer at the New York office of Macy’s. Post-graduation he became a copy boy and worked several years for the New York Sun before he moved up the ranks to become a reporter. After the end of the war, he went back to school attending Oberlin College and graduating with a bachelor’s degree. During the Second World War, he served in the Pacific Theater in the Army Corps of Engineers. Sobol was born in New York City and went to the NYC Ethical Culture Fieldston School from where he graduated in 1942. Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret PitchĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead EaglesĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight VisitorĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious HandprintsĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure HuntĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting SneakersĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Two SpiesĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of Pablo's NoseĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping DogĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery SalamanderĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Jumping FrogsĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret UFOsĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Carnival CrimeĮncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Soccer SchemeĮncyclopedia Brown and his Best Cases EverĮncyclopedia Brown's Record Book of Weird and Wonderful Facts (With: )Įncyclopedia Brown's Second Record Book of Weird and Wonderful FactsĮncyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky CrimesĮncyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky Spies (With: )Įncyclopedia Brown's Book Of Wacky SportsĮncyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky AnimalsĮncyclopedia Brown's Third Record Book of Weird and Wonderful FactsĮncyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky Cars (With: )Įncyclopedia Brown's Book of the Wacky OutdoorsĮncyclopedia Brown's Book Of Strange But True Crimes (With: )ĭonald J Sobol is an inspirational and children fiction author best known for writing the “Encyclopedia Brown” series of novels.
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