Marc Aronson is the author of the critically acclaimed SIR WALTER RALEGH AND THE QUEST FOR EL DORADO, winner of the ALA's first Robert L. Sibert Information Book Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He has also written ART ATTACK: A Brief Cultural History of the Avant-Garde. A passionate spokesperson for young-adult literature, he has written many articles on the subject that have been published in two collections, the most recent of which is BEYOND THE PALE: New Essays for a New Era. He has won the LMP Award for editing and has a PhD in American history from NYU. The publisher of Cricket Books at Carus Publishing, he lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife and son.

Books by Marc Aronson

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science

by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos - Historical , Nonfiction

Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, SUGAR CHANGED THE WORLD tells of how one product can reveal the grand currents of world history in new ways.

Unsettled: The Problem of Loving Israel

by Marc Aronson - History

Race: A History Beyond Black and White

by Marc Aronson - History

Witch-Hunt Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials

by Marc Aronson - History