This book is part of a book series called Life Portraits .

This book has been graded for interest at 11-14 years.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Gareth Stevens Publishing .

Samuel Willard Crompton is a major contributor to the American National Biography (1999) and to the Scribner's Encyclopedia of American Lives two volume sports edition. Crompton lives and works in the Berkshire Hills of his native western Massachusetts.