Edward Ormondroyd is an American author of children's books. He is best known for David and the Phoenix

David and the Phoenix

David and the Phoenix is a 1957 children's novel about a young boy's adventures with a Phoenix. It was the first book written by American Edward Ormondroyd, a tale of friendship between two different species, a young boy and a magical bird, beginning with David's education in the ways of the...

, a fantasy novel. His time travel novel

Time travel in fiction

Time travel is a common theme in science fiction and is depicted in a variety of media. It simply means either going forward in time or backward, to experience the future, or the past.-Literature:...

 Time at the Top was filmed for television in 1999.

Ormondroyd was born Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania

Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania

Wilkinsburg is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States adjacent to the city of Pittsburgh. The population was 15,930 at the 2010 census, having lost more than 13,000 in the 70 years since 1940, when 29,853 people were enumerated...

 and grew up in Pennsylvania and Michigan before serving two years on a destroyer escort

Destroyer escort

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 in World War II

World War II

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. After the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a Bachelor's degree in English and a masters in Library Science. In 1970 he moved from Berkeley to Newfield, a small town west of Ithaca, New York

Ithaca, New York

The city of Ithaca, is a city in upstate New York and the county seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca-Tompkins County metropolitan area...

. He currently lives in Trumansburg, New York

Trumansburg, New York

Trumansburg is a village in Tompkins County, New York, United States. The population was 1,581 at the 2000 census. The name is a variant spelling of the surname of the founder, Abner Treman...

, just north of Ithaca.

Works

In order of publication:

• David and the Phoenix
  David and the Phoenix
  David and the Phoenix is a 1957 children's novel about a young boy's adventures with a Phoenix. It was the first book written by American Edward Ormondroyd, a tale of friendship between two different species, a young boy and a magical bird, beginning with David's education in the ways of the...
  
  1957
• The Tale of Alain 1960
• Time at the Top 1963
• Jonathan Frederick Aloysius Brown 1964
• Theodore 1966
• Michael, the Upstairs Dog 1967
• Broderick 1969
• Theodore's Rival 1971
• Castaways on Long Ago 1973
• Imagination Greene 1973
• All in Good Time 1975
• Johnny Castleseed 1985