Eric P. Kelly was born, and later on, he died. Sometime in the middle, he wrote the following books, which have all now gone out of print.
Books:
At The Sign of the Golden Compass
The Blacksmith of Vilno
In Clean Hay
On the Staked Plain New York
The Trumpeter of Krakow (1929 Newbery Award)
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