A Day No Pigs Would Die By: Robert Newton Peck Author's Biography: Born on February 17, 1928 in Vermont, Robert Newton Peck was the youngest in a family of seven children. Just like the character of the same name in A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Peck's father's name was Haven. Robert, although the youngest of his brothers and sisters, was the first to attend school. It is said that when Mr. Haven Peck met Robert's teacher for the first time, he said, "We hope he's got manners, and whatever he breaks, we'll pay for." Also like the character in the book, neither Robert's father, mother, nor aunt could read or write. However, the author says he learned more from them than anyone else in his life. Nature was also a great teacher to Peck, and that today's youth know so little about his second greatest teacher he finds sad. Mr Peck says he flunked out of Cornell Law School with the "lowest scholastic average ever recorded in Ithaca, New York." Mr. Peck served our country during the second World War, earning a commendation. He now loves to play ragtime music on the piano, play golf, and "show-off" (in his ownwords). His friends call him Rob, and he stands 6'4" tall and weighs two hundredpounds. Mr. Rogers (from PBS) was the best man at his wedding to a librarian. Theynow have two grown children, one boy and one girl. A self-described "flag-waving,redneck patriot," Robert Newton Peck is the author of some of the finest Young Adult Literature that has been written in the world. (This author's opinion.) In addition to the 46 books he has written, including the Soup series, Millie's Boy, Bee Tree and Other Stuff, Clunie, and Kirk's Law, Robert Newton Peck has also written 100 poems, 35 songs, and created three TV specials. (These figures stop at1990, perhaps many more since then.) Write to RNP, he answers 100 letters a week, maybe one of them could be yours! Robert Newton Peck 500 Sweetwater Club Circle Longwood, Florida 32779 Historical Background: About the Shaker Creed: From "Needful Counsel," Gentle Manners Published by the Shaker Community at New Lebanon, New York: 1823 "Whoever would live long and happy, let him observe thefollowing rules:-----
Let your thoughts be rational, solid, godly. Let your conversation be little, useful, true. Let your conduct be profitable, virtuous, charitable. Let your manners be sober, courteous, cheerful. Let your diet be temperate, wholesome, sober. Let your apparel be frugal, neat, comely. Let your sleep be moderate, quiet, seasonable. Let your recreations be lawful, brief, seldom. Let your prayers be short, devout, sincere." The Shakers are a Christian religious organization whose leader and members set sail for America in 1774. Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers, began life as a member of the Quaker religion, but later founded an offshoot religion (Shakerism) which she would have called the "United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing." There are still Shakers alive today, although only fewer than a dozen remain. Real Shakers are in fact not much at all like the Peck family as portrayed in the book.
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