Robert H. Locke

Robert Locke spent three years in Liberia as part of the Peace Corps.{{Cite web |last=Huse |first=Nancy |title=Re-Membering Broken Cultures in Story for a Black Night |url=https://www.childlitassn.org/assets/docs/2002huse1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150519113625/https://www.childlitassn.org/assets/docs/2002huse1.pdf |archive-date=May 19, 2015 |website=Children's Literature Association}}

• Books
• Story for a Black Night (1982)
• The Truth About the Moon (1984)
• Tracks (1986)
• Mayday Rampage (1993)
• Big Man and the Burn-Out
• Stage plays
• Rose Jewel and Harmony
• On Daddy's Birthday
• The Dolly{{cite web |title=A.C.T. History |url=https://www.act-sf.org/home/about/history.html#1983 |website=American Conservatory Theater}}"The Dolly is not just a child's play". Toronto Star, March 7, 1986.{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-19-ca-1693-story.html | title=A Family Comes Apart in Locke's 'The Dolly' | website=Los Angeles Times | date=19 April 1987 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/A-Landmark-Transformation-Six-years-after-the-3016555.php | title=A Landmark Transformation / Six years after the quake, the Geary Theater rises from the rubble | date=31 December 1995 }}
• Murder and Edna Redrum

• 1982 California Book Awards – (silver) First Novel
• 1987 Best Book for Young Adults – American Library Association
• "A Contribution of Cultural Significance" – the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People
• Family Circle – Best Book for Kids
• 2002 Phoenix Award Honor Book

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• [http://webpages.csus.edu/~boblocke/ Author website]
• {{OCLC|644953722}}
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Category:American writers

Category:1944 births

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