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Especially popular books include: My First Steps to Reading, My First Steps to Math, My First Steps to Science, Word Bird, The Sound Box Books, and Magic Castle Readers. Her works have been translated into British English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Malay. Belk Library, Elon University holds a collection of all published books by Moncure.
Mennonite literature, in the modern sense, usually refers to literary works by Mennonites about Mennonites, whether the author is Mennonite by ethnicity or religion. . Although fiction was written about Mennonites by non-Mennonites since at least the 1800s, the term Mennonite literature, as a genre, usually refers to literary works written by people who self-identify as Mennon
Among the early volumes were a 1771 edition of the Dordrecht Confession of Faith in French translation; an inventory of the Mennonite Archives in Amsterdam; C.H. Wedel's German-language general history of the Mennonites (the first written and published in America); and Helen Reimensnyder Martin's book Tillie, a Mennonite Maid. The collection ...
Janzen's first memoir, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, has received acclaim for its comedic elements and was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.The response from the Mennonite community, which it satirizes, has been mixed.
Smith was the first (known) American Mennonite to earn a Ph.D., doing so at the University of Chicago in 1907. C. C. Henry Smith (the "C" simply an initial he adopted) taught two stints at Goshen College and became the first dean of the college, before going on to teach at Bluffton University for the rest of his life.
His Mennonite upbringing still influences his writing in work such as "The Shunning", which is about the persecution of a Mennonite farmer questioning his religion. Friesen won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award at the Manitoba Book Awards for his work on "Blasphemer's Wheel," and was runner up in Milton Acorn's People's Poetry Awards.
Christmas Carol Kauffman (December 25, 1901 – January 30, 1969) was an American author of Mennonite Christian literature.Kauffman was best known for her semi-biographical novels, and her writings were largely based on the life stories of people she met through the mission work she performed with her husband, pastor Nelson E. Kauffman.
Martin's most well-known novel is one of her earliest books, Tillie: A Mennonite Maid. [1] [5] As is typical of Martin's work, Pennsylvania Dutch women are oppressed by brutish, stingy men and a patriarchal society in Tillie. [5] Like all of Martin's heroines, Tillie escapes her repressive society through education and independent employment. [5]