![]() ![]() She met Mitchell Sharmat while vacationing in Florida, and they married in 1957. She attended Westbrook Junior College, now Westbrook College, in Portland in the 1940s. ![]() 12, 1928, in Portland, Me., to Anna (Richardson) and Nathan Weinman, co-owner of a dry goods store, for whom the boy detective was named. ![]() Sharmat was born Marjorie Weinman on Nov. ![]() The New York Public Library named “Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden” (1997) one of its 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing. Some “Nate” books have been adapted for television one, “Nate the Great Goes Undercover” (1974), was made into an animated short that won an award at the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival. His picture once adorned 28 million boxes of Cheerios, to promote children’s literacy, and he has cropped up as the answer in a New York Times crossword puzzle. Nate quickly emerged as something of a pop culture figure. Join the worlds greatest detective, Nate the Great, as he solves the mystery of the. (The hat was added by the illustrator Marc Simont, who drew the first 20 “Nate” books.) By (author) Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Illustrated by Marc Simont. Nate is a boy detective who wears a Sherlock Holmes-style deerstalker hat, loves pancakes and always catches his culprit, usually with the help of his dog, Sludge. But she was most known for her “Nate the Great” series, the first of which appeared in 1972. ![]()
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