Tim Kehoe
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1970|5|11}}
| birth_place = Saint Paul, Minnesota
| spouse = Sherri Kehoe
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|2|27|1970|5|11}}
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| occupation = Novelist, Inventor
| nationality = American
| genre = Middle-Grade Fiction
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Tim Kehoe (May 11, 1970 – February 27, 2014) was an author and toy inventor from St. Paul, Minnesota. He invented numerous toys, and was perhaps best known for inventing non-staining colored bubbles, Zubbles. Zubbles took more than 14 years to develop{{cite web|url=http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html|title=The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles|accessdate=2007-07-10|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705173319/http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html|archivedate=2007-07-05}} and incorporated a great deal of research in various fields, including chemistry and the science of dyeing. Kehoe died unexpectedly at the age of 43 in 2014.{{cite news|last1=Powell|first1=Joy|title=Obituary: St. Paul inventor Tim Kehoe created the first colored bubbles|url=http://www.startribune.com/obituary-st-paul-inventor-tim-kehoe-created-the-first-colored-bubbles/250477101/|accessdate=13 September 2016|work=Star Tribune|date=15 March 2014}}
Author
Kehoe was the author of the Vincent Shadow series published by Little, Brown and Company. Eleven-year-old Vincent Shadow dreamed of being a toy inventor. He had notebooks full of ideas: bubbles that carried sound, rockets that pop into kites, and a football that would rather bite than be caught. Unfortunately, the secret attic lab where Vincent built his prototypes had seen more disasters than triumphs. But a chance encounter with eccentric toy inventor Howard G. Whiz, and the discovery of long-lost inventions by one of the world's greatest scientists would change Vincent's life forever.
Kehoe also authored the forthcoming middle-grade thriller Furious Jones and the Assassin's Secret. Furious Jones’s dad is a world-famous thriller writer, an all around Hemingway-esque tough-guy. His dad was brutally murdered onstage one week before the release of his latest book. Furious had a front row seat to the killing. Now an orphan, Furious is set to inherit a small fortune and massive trouble. But, after spending time with a secret copy of his dad’s soon-to-be-released book, Furious decides to stop running and start chasing.
=Books=
- The Unusual Mind of Vincent Shadow, 11/01/2009, Little, Brown, and Company
- Vincent Shadow: Toy Inventor, 8/03/2011, Little, Brown, and Company
- Vincent Shadow: The Top Secret Toys, 11/02/2011, Little, Brown, and Company
- Furious Jones and the Assassin's Secret, Coming spring 2014, Simon & Schuster
Awards
- 2005 Popular Science Grand Prize for Innovation
- 2006 One of America’s 100 Best by Reader's Digest
- 2006 'Forty Under 40' winner by the Business Journal
- 2008 'Pick of the Lists' choices at the Midwest Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show
- 2011 North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominee
References
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- [http://www.believermag.com/issues/200705/?read=interview_kehoe The Believer] interview, May 2007
- [http://www.startupnation.com/pages/keymoves/tim-kehoe-zubbles-entrepreneur-traits.asp Startup Nation]
- [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5065810 Morning Edition] interview, December 22, 2005
- [https://archive.today/20130202050445/http://news.shelf-awareness.com/nview.jsp?appid=411&j=553952] Shelf Awareness, September 29, 2008
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111111235533/http://cmlibrary.org/bookhive/nccba/2011winners.asp] 2011 North Carolina Children's Book Award Winners
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140303201318/http://www.timkehoe.com/ Tim Kehoe's web site (archived)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140106213623/http://vincentshadow.com/ Vincent Shadow web site (archived)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120725103345/http://zubbles.com/ Zubbles home page (archived)]
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