Omen of the Birds won the Honor Award from the Boys' Club of America Cricket Song received the Award of Merit from Claremont Graduate College.īehn commented to Junior Authors, "After I graduated from Harvard.I started a little theater in Phoenix, Arizona. He won Graphic Arts awards for three of his children's books, The Little Hill, All Kinds of Time, and The Painted Cave.All Kinds of Time also was one of thirty classics selected by the New York Public Library and by Life magazine. In 1923, Behn was awarded a fellowship for graduate study in Sweden for one year.
His books include Siesta (1931), The Little Hill (1949), All Kinds of Time (1950), Windy Morning (1953), The House Beyond the Meadow (1955), The Wizard in the Well (1956), The Painted Cave (1957), Timmy's Search (1958), The Two Uncles of Pablo (1959), Sombra (1961), Roderick (1961), The Faraway Lurs (1963), Cricket Songs (1964), Omen of the Birds (1964), The Golden Hive (1966), Chrysalis: Concerning Children and Poetry (1968), What a Beautiful Noise (1970), More Cricket Songs (1971), Crickets and Bullfrogs and Whispers of Thunder: Poems and Pictures (1984), Trees: A Poem (1992), and Halloween (2003). In addition, Behn was the vice-president of the Tucson Regional Plan from 1940-1947.īehn created twenty-one books for children, including several volumes of poetry, translated two, and wrote numerous screenplays and scripts for radio programs.
He was a scenario writer for motion picture studios from 1925-1935 a teacher of creative writing at the University of Arizona in Tucson from 1938-1947 he founded the university radio bureau in 1938 and managed in until 1947 he founded the University of Arizona Press in 1960 and also founded the Phoenix Little Theater in 1922, managing it until 1923. Behn worked in a number of different professions over his lifetime. Behn married Alice Lawrence and had three children: Pamela, Prescott, and Peter. Although he began his education at Stanford University in 1918, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1922 from Harvard University.
Behn, a miner, and Maren (Christensen) Behn. Harry Behn (1898-1973) was born in Yavapai County, Arizona.
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