Often they marry into the family to carry on the family businessĥ Chapter 1 p. Johnny Tremain is a gifted apprentice of 14 years of age, son of Lavinia Lyte Dove is a 16 year old boy apprentice of 4 years Dusty Miller is an apprentice of almost 11 years Apprentices spend 7 years with a master craftsman with no wages, but learn the business. 7-31 Setting: Boston Hancock Warf Fish Street in 1926 and divorced him in 1933 All her novels were in a New England setting In 1942 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her historical and adult biography called Paul Revere and the World He Lived Inġ942 she won Newberry Award for Johnny Tremain She wrote a juvenile biography America’s Paul Revere Esther Forbes was best known for her ability to create characters, faces, voices, and scenes to take us as living spectators of the Boston Tea Party or the battles of Lexington Was made into a Walt Disney movie in 1957Ĥ Chapter 1 p. in Boston from and again in In 1926 she published her first historical novel O Genteel Lady Married Albert Hoskins Jr. of Wisconsin She was on editorial staff of Houghton-Mifflin Co.

2 Author Notes: Esther Forbes was historical novelist, biographer, and story writer She was born in 1894 in Westborough, Massachusetts She spent two years at Univ.

Johnny tremain by esther forbes