Armstrong Sperry (1897-1976)

Armstrong Sperry was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books

include historical fiction and biography. Inspired by reading the work of Herman Melville, Robert

Louis Stevenson, and Jack London as a boy, and then Frederick O'Brien's White Shadows in the South

Seas in 1919, he traveled around the South Pacific from October 1920 to May 1921, spending time

on Tahiti, Raiatea, Bora Bora, New Zealand, Australia, the Fiji Islands, and Hawai’i. His older brother

was the inventor of the shoe line called Sperry Topsider.

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