“I was a serious reader from an early age and when I attended Boston University in 1968 Barry Denenberg is the critically acclaimed author of non-fiction and historical fiction. After the publication of An American Hero: The True Story of Charles Lindburgh, Denenberg was interviewed for various documentaries including ABC’s “The Century.” Denenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York and lived in Long Island, Binghamton, New York, and Palisades Park, New Jersey.

His nonfiction books have covered a wide array of topics, from Anne Frank to Elvis Presley. His historical fiction includes titles in the Dear America, My Name is America, and Royal Diaries series, many of which have been named NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People. Several of the stories were filmed and released on videotape.Barry Denenberg is the critically acclaimed author of non-fiction and historical fiction. Originally all the books had a ribbon inserted as a bookmark for the books but were removed in the later releases. The re-launch series and releases contain a new cover style and different pictures of the main characters than those of the original releases. The breadth of historical topics covered in these books through fiction makes the Dear America series a favorite teaching device of history schoolteachers around the country. The Dear America series covers a wide range of topics, including: the Pilgrims' journey to the New World, the Salem Witch Trials, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, western expansion, slavery, immigration, nineteenth-century prairie life, the California Gold Rush of 1849, the Great Depression, Native Americans' experiences, racism, coal mining, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the fight for women's suffrage, the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the Battle of the Alamo, the Vietnam War, and more. Each book is written in the form of a diary of a young woman's life during important events or time periods in American history.

However, it was relaunched in the fall of 2010. The series was canceled in 2004 with its final release, Hear My Sorrow. By 1998, the series had 12 titles with 3.5 million copies in print. Dear America is a series of historical fiction novels for children published by Scholastic starting in 1996.

Early Sunday Morning by Barry Denenberg