Birth Name: Eleanor Estes
Occupation: Children’s Author
Place Of Birth: West Haven
Date Of Birth: May 9, 1906
Date Of Death: July 15, 1988
Cause Of Death: N/A
Ethnicity: Unknown
Nationality: American
Eleanor Estes was born on the 9th of May, 1906. She was best known for being a Children’s Author. Children’s author who wrote nearly two dozen books and won the Newbery Medal for her 1951 work, Ginger Pye. Her other works include The Moffats, The Hundred Dresses, and Pinky Pye.
Eleanor Estes was born in West Haven. She worked as a children’s librarian in New Haven, Connecticut and later won a scholarship to the Pratt Institute’s library school. She published the first book in her popular Moffats series in 1941. She had an early hit with The Moffats, a book that told the story of four children who lived in a small Connecticut town around the turn of the 20th century.
Eleanor Estes was a Taurus and was born in the G.I. Generation.
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Eleanor Estes is part of G.I. Generation also known as The Greatest Generation. This generation experienced much of their youth during the Great Depression and rapid technological innovation such as the radio and the telephone. The initials "G.I." is military terminology referring to "Government Issue" or "General Issue".
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Eleanor Estes was born in the Year of the Horse.
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| REAL NAME: | Eleanor Estes |
| NICKNAME: | Eleanor |
| RELIGION: | Unknown |
| AGE GENERATION: | G.I. Generation |
| BIRTH SIGN: | Taurus |
| BIRTH DAY: | Wednesday |
| DEATH DAY: | Friday |
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Horoscope
Zodiac Sign: Eleanor Estes was a Taurus. People of this zodiac sign like cooking, romance, working with hands and dislike sudden changes, complications, and insecurity. The strengths of this sign are being reliable, patient, practical, devoted, responsible, stable, while weaknesses can be stubborn, possessive and uncompromising. The greatest overall compatibility with Taurus is Scorpio and Cancer.
Chinese Zodiac: Eleanor Estes was born in the Year of the Dragon. People born under this sign are seen as warm-hearted and easygoing. Independence is one of their greatest strengths, but sometimes they're overly frank with others.
Ruling Planet: Eleanor Estes had a ruling planet of Venus and has a ruling planet of Venus and by astrological associations Friday is ruled by Venus. Venus is the planet of love, harmony, money and possessions. Venus is graceful, charming, sensual and social. People who are born with Mars as the ruling planet have beauty, charm and sensuality.
Eleanor Estes’s birth sign is Taurus and she had a ruling planet of Venus.
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