Jim Murphy
AUTHOR

Jim Murphy

United States Military Solider
Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
Jim Murphy began his career in children's books as an editor, but managed to escape to become a writer, entering a life of personal and creative happiness and enduring financial uncertainty. He's convinced that the latter keeps him coming back to his computer to write every day and feels that a sense of impending doom is the doorway to creativity. He has never counted the number of books he's published (feeling the time and energy is better spent doing research and writing) but guesses that he has over thirty books to his credit. Jim's work has been honored with numerous awards, including two American Llibrary Association Newbery Honor Book Awards, an ALA Robert F. Sibert Award and Sibert Honor Book Award, three National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Awards, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Award and a BG/HB Honor Book Award, two SCBWI Golden Kite Awards, and been a finalist for the National Book Award. Recently, he was given the ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award for "his significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature."
Read more Read less
You're getting a free audiobook


You're getting a free audiobook.

$14.95 per month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Try for $0.00

The Great Fire

Most popular
View Details

Best Sellers

Product List
  • The Great Fire Audiobook By Jim Murphy cover art

    Regular price: $9.82 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $9.82 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America Audiobook By Jim Murphy cover art

    Regular price: $11.08 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $11.08 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • An American Plague Audiobook By Jim Murphy cover art

    • An American Plague

    • The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
    • By: Jim Murphy
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 180 ratings

    Regular price: $11.17 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $11.17 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • The Boys' War Audiobook By Jim Murphy cover art

    • The Boys' War

    • Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
    • By: Jim Murphy
    • Narrated by: Ed Sala
    • Length: 2 hrs
    • Release date: 02-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    Regular price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • The Long Road to Gettysburg Audiobook By Jim Murphy cover art

    Regular price: $10.10 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $10.10 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • Across America on an Emigrant Train Audiobook By Jim Murphy cover art

    Regular price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • The Great Fire Audiobook By Jim Murphy cover art

    Regular price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • A Savage Thunder Audiobook By Jim Murphy cover art

    Regular price: $9.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $9.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Visit Amazon Author Central