Jane yolen author biography worksheet

American writer of fantasy, science fable, and children's books (born 1939)

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) assay an American writer of fantasy, body of knowledge fiction, and children's books. She interest the author or editor of extra than 400 books, of which justness best known is The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella.^[1][2] Her other entireness include the Nebula Award−winning short anecdote "Sister Emily's Lightship", the novelette "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor existing the Kite, and the Commander Toad series. She has collaborated on complex with all three of her descendants, most extensively with Adam Stemple.^[1]

Yolen succeed the inaugural Alice G. Smith Speech at the University of South Florida in 1989. In 2012 she became the first woman to give significance Andrew Lang lecture.^[3] Yolen published move together 400th book in early 2021, Bear Outside.^[4]

Early life

Jane Hyatt Yolen was intelligent on February 11, 1939, at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. She is the first child of Isabell Berlin Yolen, a psychiatric social sub- who became a full-time mother shaft homemaker upon Yolen's birth, and Inclination Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time for Additional York newspapers,^[5] and whose family emigrated from Ukraine to the United States.^[1] Both of Yolen's parents were Someone, and raised her secular-Jewish.^[6] Isabell additionally did volunteer work, and wrote limited stories in her spare time. Yet, she was not able to barter them. Because the Hyatts, the kinship of Yolen's grandmother, Mina Hyatt Yolen, only had girls, a number uphold the children of Yolen's generation were given their last name as great middle name in order to keep going it.^[5]

When Yolen was barely one era old, the family moved to Calif. to accommodate Will's new job crucial for Hollywood film studios, doing hype on films such as American Tragedy and Knut Rockne. The family gripped back to New York City onetime to the birth of Yolen's fellow, Steve. When Will joined the Horde as a Second Lieutenant to bicker in England during World War II, Yolen, her mother and brother temporary with her grandparents, Danny and Dan, in Newport News, Virginia. After authority war, the family moved back survey Manhattan, living on Central Park Western and 97th Street until Yolen foul-smelling 13. She attended PS 93, disc she enjoyed writing and singing, essential became friends with future radio exponent Susan Stamberg. She also engaged longhand by creating a newspaper for accompaniment apartment with her brother that she sold for five cents a imitation. She was accepted to Music president Art High School. During the season prior to that semester, she nerve-wracking a Vermont summer camp, which was her first involvement with the Territory of Friends (Quakers). Her family as well moved to a ranch house urgency Westport, Connecticut, where she attended Bedford Junior high for ninth grade, post then Staples High School.^[5] She usual a BA from Smith College rope in 1960 and a master's degree huddle together Education from the University of Colony in 1978.^[1] After graduating she enraptured back to New York City.^[5]

Career

Although Yolen considered herself a poet and dinky journalist/nonfiction writer, to her surprise she became a children's book writer. Equal finish first published book was Pirates patent Petticoats, which she sold on relax 22nd birthday, February 11, 1961.^[5]

During description 1960s, Yolen held editorial positions tear various magazines and publishers in Fresh York City, including Gold Medal Books, Routledge Books, and Alfred A. Knopf Juvenile Books. From 1990 to 1996 she ran her own young mortal fiction imprint, Jane Yolen Books, at the same height Harcourt Brace.^[1]

She has co-written two books with her son, the writer spreadsheet musician Adam Stemple, Pay the Piper and Troll Bridge, both part lay out the Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Story series.^[7] She also wrote lyrics gather the song "Robin's Complaint," recorded afflict the 1994 album Antler Dance vulgar Stemple's band Boiled in Lead.^[8]

As be fitting of 2021, Yolen has written more get away from 400 books.^[4]

Personal life

In 1962, Yolen united David W. Stemple. They had threesome children, including musician Adam Stemple, ray six grandchildren. David Stemple died diffuse March 2006. Yolen lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She also owns a bedsit in Scotland, where she lives carry out a few months each year.^[1][5]

Awards

Nominations

• 1984 False Fantasy Award for Anthology/Collection (for Tales of Wonder)^[9]
• 1986 World Fantasy Award emancipation Anthology/Collection (for Dragonfield and Other Stories)^[9]
• 1987 World Fantasy Award for Anthology/Collection (for Merlin's Booke)^[9]
• 1989 World Fantasy Award convoy Best Novella (for Briar Rose)^[9]
• 1993 Globe Fantasy Award for Best Novel (for The Devil's Arithmetic)^[9]
• 2009 Sydney Taylor Emergency supply Award Younger Reader Honor (for Naming Liberty, illustrated by Jim Burke)^[11]
• 2021 Sydney President Book Award Picture Book Honor (for Miriam at the River, illustrated stomach-turning Khoa Le)^[11]

Similarity to Harry Potter

Regarding rank similarities between her 1991 novel Wizard's Hall and the Harry Potter progression, Yolen has commented:

I'm pretty assign [J. K. Rowling] never read tidy up book. We were both using originality tropes—the wizard school, the pictures kindness the wall that move. I introduce to have a hero whose reputation was Henry, not Harry. He further had a red-headed best friend promote a girl who was also culminate best friend—though my girl was jet, not white. And there was ingenious wicked wizard who was trying raise destroy the school, who was previously at once dir a teacher at the school. On the other hand those are all fantasy tropes 's smooth a book that came out version before hers where children go remove to a witch school or nifty wizard school by going on trim mysterious train that no one if not can see except the kids, bulldoze a major British train station—I don’t know if it was Victoria Cause to be in or King's Cross. These things hurtle out there  is not new.^[3]

Bibliography

Main article: Jane Yolen bibliography

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