Donald J. Sobol
4 October 1924 – 11 July 2012
101 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Donald J. Sobol was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from the Fieldston School in New York City in 1942 and joined the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. After the war, he got a degree from Oberlin College. He worked in New York for several years, working his way up from copy boy to reporter for the New York Sun, and then working for the New York Daily News, and worked there for two years. In the 1950s he moved to Miami to pursue writing full-time. He started writing the Two-Minute Mysteries series in 1959, and he started writing his popular Encyclopedia Brown mystery series for children in 1963. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him a Special Edgar Award for his Encyclopedia Brown series in 1975. In addition to his very popular books for children, Sobol wrote several nonfiction books, and he wrote and contributed to magazines under a variety of pen names. The 29th -- and final -- book in the Encyclopedia Brown series was published three months after Sobol's death in 2012.
Also published as: D. J. Sobol, Donald Sobol, Donald J. Sobel
Most-read books
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
4.6 · 1963 · 114 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All
4 · 1968 · 50 want to read
Two-Minute Mysteries Collection
4 · 1967 · 51 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again
5 · 1965 · 40 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown takes the cake!
5 · 1983 · 44 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case
4 · 1973 · 36 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man
4.8 · 1967 · 33 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues
4.5 · 1966 · 27 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day
4.7 · 1970 · 29 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Carries On
3.7 · 1980 · 24 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown sets the pace
5 · 1982 · 28 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down
5 · 1971 · 19 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way
5 · 1972 · 23 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles
5 · 1975 · 20 want to read
The Book of Children's Classics
1997 · 21 want to read
More Two Minute Mysteries
3 · 1854 · 21 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown
5 · 1976 · 20 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace
4 · 1969 · 16 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor
5 · 1977 · 14 want to read
Imagine
4 · 1996 · 15 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand
4.3 · 1974 · 10 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown, Super Sleuth
4 · 2009 · 12 want to read
Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case
4 · 2007 · 12 want to read
Still More Two-Minute Mysteries
4 · 1975 · 9 want to read