Her stories were often inspired by the experiences and adventures from her own childhood as well as her boys’. As the family settled in New York City and her sons grew, Sharmat turned her hand to children’s books. In 1957, she married author and investor Mitchell Sharmat with whom she had two sons, Craig and Andrew. I used to enjoy walking into Grant stores and reading my four words.” Other early publishing successes of that time included a short story for adults and an article about Yale. Grant Company for their spring promotion,” she said in a Something About the Author essay. “My first commercially published ‘work’ was a national advertising slogan for the W.T. Sharmat first entered the working world with a job at a department store and in 1951 she landed a position on the circulation staff at the Yale University Library in New Haven, Conn.ĭuring the early 1950s, Sharmat’s writing began receiving some recognition. She graduated from high school in 1946 and then graduated in 1948 from Westbrook Junior College in Portland, where she studied merchandising as a “practical” counterpart to her writing. Her work appeared in various school magazines and newspapers. The writing bug stuck, and with what she called “tremendous encouragement” from both her parents, Sharmat wrote poems, stories, and kept a diary, and sometimes drew illustrations to accompany her texts.
“It achieved a circulation of about four-her parents and mine.” “I began writing when I was eight.” At about that time, she and a friend wrote and distributed their own newspaper called The Snooper’s Gazette, in which they reported news they “obtained by spying on grownups for our detective agency,” she explained. “My earliest ambition was to become a writer or a detective or a lion tamer,” she said. As an admittedly quiet child, Sharmat recalled in early interviews including one for Cricket in 1975 that she fell in love with reading and the imaginary worlds of fiction very early in childhood. to Anna (Richardson) and Nathan Weinman, who sold and manufactured dry goods and men’s furnishings and who served as the inspiration for Nate the Great. Sharmat was born on Novemin Portland, Me. Prolific author Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, creator of more than 130 books for children and young adults, and known for her beloved series about pancake-loving boy detective Nate the Great, died on March 12 in Munster, Ind.
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