Marjorie W. Sharmat


Marjorie Weinman Sharmat was an American children's writer.
She wrote more than 130 books for children and teens and her books have been translated into several languages. They have won awards including Book of the Year by the Library of Congress or have become selections by the Literary Guild.
Perhaps Sharmat's most popular work features the child detective Nate the Great. He was inspired by and named after her father, who lived to see the first Nate book published. One story, Nate the Great Goes Undercover, was adapted as a made-for-TV movie that won the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award.
Sharmat's husband Mitchell Sharmat expanded Nate's storyline by creating Olivia Sharp, his cousin and fellow detective. Husband and wife wrote four Olivia Sharp books published 1989 to 1991. During the 1990s, their son Craig Sharmat wrote three Nate books with his mother. In the late 2010s, their other son Andrew co-wrote the last two Nate books written while Marjorie Weinman Sharmat was alive. With Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's passing in 2019 Andrew has continued writing the series with Nate the Great and the Earth Day Robot.
In the mid-1980s Sharmat wrote three books published in 1984 and 1985 under the pseudonym Wendy Andrews.
Sharmat also wrote the Sorority Sisters series, eight short novels published in 1986 and 1987. They are romantic fiction with a sense of humor. They are set in a California public high school.
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Life

Sharmat, who was born in Portland, Maine, on November 12, 1928, graduated from Westbrook Junior College in 1948. Sharmat's parents were Nathan and Anna Richardson Weinman. Nathan Weinman was a dry goods manufacturer and dealer. She had one sister, Rosalind.
Sharmat died on March 12, 2019, at the age of 90.

Works

Many of Sharmat's publications belong to one of the series Nate the Great, Morris Brookside, Olivia Sharp, or Duz Shedd. Rex, picture book illustrated by Emily McCully Goodnight, Andrew; Goodnight Craig, illus. Mary Chalmers – named after sons Andrew Sharmat and Craig SharmatGladys Told Me to Meet Her Here, illus. Edward FrascinoA Visit with Rosalind, illus. Lisl Weil – named after sister Rosalind Weinman51 Sycamore Lane, illus. Lisl WeilA Hot Thirsty Day, illus. Rosemary WellsGetting Something on Maggie Marmelstein, illus. Ben ShecterSophie and Gussie, 1973I Want Mama, 1974 ; German edition, Mama liegt im Krankenhaus Walter the Wolf, 1975 Mooch the Messy, 1976 I'm Terrific, 1977 Mitchell Is Moving, 1978A Big Fat Enormous Lie, 1978Thornton, the Worrier, 1978Mooch the Messy Meets Prudence the Neat, 1978Mr. Jameson & Mr. Phillips, 1979Uncle Boris and Maude, 1979I Am Not a Pest, 1979Griselda's New Year, 1979Octavia Told Me a Secret, 1979Say Hello, Vanessa, 1979 Scarlet Monster Lives Here, 1979 The Trolls of Twelfth Street, 1979Sasha the Silly, 1979The 329th Friend, 1979The Day I was Born, 1980Gila Monsters Meet you at the Airport, 1980 Griselda's New Year, 1980 Grumley the Grouch, 1980 Sometimes Mama and Papa Fight, 1980 What Are we Going to do About Andrew?, 1980Lucretia the Unbearable, 1981Rollo and Juliet, 1981Twitchell the Wishful, 1981Chasing After Annie, 1981Little Devil Gets Sick, 1982 Two Ghosts on a Bench, 1982How to Meet a Gorgeous Guy, 1983I Saw Him First – romantic fiction for teensThe Seven Sloppy Days of Phineas Pig, 1983 Rich Mitch, 1983How to Meet a Gorgeous Girl, 1984He Noticed I'm Alive – and Other Hopeful Signs, 1984My Mother Never Listens to Me 1984 Supergirl Storybook: Based on the Motion Picture Supergirl, G. P. Putnam, 1984 Vacation Fever!, Pacer Books, 1984 Are We There Yet?, Pacer Books, 1985 One Terrific Thanksgiving, 1985Two Guys Noticed Me – and Other Miracles, 1985Get Rich Mitch, 1985Hooray for Mother's Day!, 1986Hooray for Father's Day!, 1987I'm the Best, 1991

Morris Brookside

Illustrated by Ronald Himler:Morris Brookside, a Dog, 1973Morris Brookside is Missing 1974

Duz Shedd, or Genghis Kahn

Illustrated by Mitchell Rigie:
  1. Hollywood Hound: A Duz Shedd Story, 1993
  2. A Dog Star is Born: A Duz Shedd Story 1994
  3. Dog-Gone Hollywood: A Duz Shedd Story 1994
  4. Dirty Tricks: A Duz Shedd Story, 2000

[Nate the Great]

Illustrated by Marc Simont; later by Martha Weston and Jody Wheeler :
  1. Nate the Great, 1972
  2. Nate the Great Goes Undercover, 1974
  3. Nate the Great and the Lost List, 1975
  4. Nate the Great and the Phony Clue, 1977
  5. Nate the Great and the Sticky Case, 1978
  6. Nate the Great and the Missing Key, 1981
  7. Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail, 1983
  8. Nate the Great and the Fishy Prize, 1985
  9. Nate the Great Stalks Stupidweed, 1986
  10. Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag, 1987
  11. Nate the Great Goes Down in the Dumps, 1989
  12. Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt, 1989
  13. Nate the Great and the Musical Note, 1990
  14. Nate the Great and the Stolen Base, 1992
  15. Nate the Great and the Pillowcase, 1993
  16. Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine, 1994
  17. Nate the Great and the Tardy Tortoise, 1995
  18. Nate the Great and the Crunchy Christmas, 1996
  19. Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden, 1997
  20. Nate the Great and Me: The Case of the Fleeing Fang, 1998
  21. Nate the Great and the Monster Mess, 1999
  22. Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective, 2000
  23. Nate the Great and the Big Sniff, 2001
  24. Nate the Great on the Owl Express, 2003
  25. Nate the Great Talks Turkey, 2006
  26. Nate the Great and the Hungry Book Club, 2009
  27. Nate the Great, Where Are You?, 2015
  28. Nate the Great and the Missing Birthday Snake, 2018
  29. Nate the Great and the Wandering Word, 2019

[Olivia Sharp]

Featuring Nate the Great's cousin, Olivia Sharp, "Agent for Secrets". Co-written with husband Mitchell Sharmat, and illustrated by Denise Brunkus:
  1. The Pizza Monster, 1989
  2. Princess of the Filmore Street School, 1989
  3. The Sly Spy, 1990
  4. The Green Toenails Gang, 1991
  5. Akulakhan, 2002