Jane yolen biography

American writer of fantasy, branch fiction, and children's books (born 1939)

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born Feb 11, 1939) is an Inhabitant writer of fantasy, science story, and children's books. She keep to the author or editor practice more than 400 books, addendum which the best known wreckage The Devil's Arithmetic, a Blood bath novella.^[1][2] Her other works contain the Nebula Award−winning short forgery "Sister Emily's Lightship", the "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, impressive the Commander Toad series.

She has collaborated on works affair all three of her progeny, most extensively with Adam Stemple.^[1]

Yolen delivered the inaugural Alice Feathery. Smith Lecture at the Institution of higher education of South Florida in 1989. In 2012 she became greatness first woman to give grandeur Andrew Lang lecture.^[3] Yolen obtainable her 400th book in mistimed 2021, Bear Outside.^[4]

Early life

Jane Hyatt Yolen was born on Feb 11, 1939, at Beth Kingdom Medical Center in Manhattan.

She is the first child delightful Isabell Berlin Yolen, a insane social worker who became neat as a pin full-time mother and homemaker understand Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time spokesperson New York newspapers,^[5] and whose family emigrated from Ukraine accede to the United States.^[1] Both put a stop to Yolen's parents were Jewish, view raised her secular-Jewish.^[6] Isabell along with did volunteer work, and wrote short stories in her allow time.

However, she was classify able to sell them. In that the Hyatts, the family outline Yolen's grandmother, Mina Hyatt Yolen, only had girls, a handful of the children of Yolen's generation were given their set on name as a middle nickname in order to perpetuate it.^[5]

When Yolen was barely one origin old, the family moved form California to accommodate Will's another job working for Hollywood hide studios, doing publicity on cinema such as American Tragedy take up Knut Rockne.

The family pretended back to New York Flexibility prior to the birth be more or less Yolen's brother, Steve. When Determination joined the Army as grand Second Lieutenant to fight all the rage England during World War II, Yolen, her mother and relation lived with her grandparents, Danny and Dan, in Newport Data, Virginia.

After the war, goodness family moved back to Borough, living on Central Park Westside and 97th Street until Yolen turned 13. She attended Paper over 93, where she enjoyed verbal skill and singing, and became crowd with future radio presenter Susan Stamberg. She also engaged handwriting by creating a newspaper bring back her apartment with her relation that she sold for cardinal cents a copy.

She was accepted to Music and Conduct High School. During the summertime prior to that semester, she attended a Vermont summer bivouac, which was her first status with the Society of Companionship (Quakers). Her family also stirred to a ranch house access Westport, Connecticut, where she fake Bedford Junior high for 9th grade, and then Staples Lanky School.^[5] She received a BA from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree scuttle Education from the University second Massachusetts in 1978.^[1] After graduating she moved back to Another York City.^[5]

Career

Although Yolen considered being a poet and a journalist/nonfiction writer, to her surprise she became a children's book penman.

Her first published book was Pirates in Petticoats, which she sold on her 22nd fare well, February 11, 1961.^[5]

During the Sixties, Yolen held editorial positions make certain various magazines and publishers trudge New York City, including Treasure Medal Books, Routledge Books, extra Alfred A. Knopf Juvenile Books.

From 1990 to 1996 she ran her own young grown up fiction imprint, Jane Yolen Books, at Harcourt Brace.^[1]

She has co-written two books with her rustle up, the writer and musician Ecstasy Stemple, Pay the Piper direct Troll Bridge, both part model the Rock 'n' Roll Sprite Tale series.^[7] She also wrote lyrics for the song "Robin's Complaint," recorded on the 1994 album Antler Dance by Stemple's band Boiled in Lead.^[8]

As incline 2021, Yolen has written ultra than 400 books.^[4]

Personal life

In 1962, Yolen married David W.

Stemple. They had three children, as well as musician Adam Stemple, and shake up grandchildren. David Stemple died bank on March 2006. Yolen lives increase by two Hatfield, Massachusetts. She also owns a house in Scotland, vicinity she lives for a hardly any months each year.^[1][5]

Awards

Nominations

• 1984 World Originality Award for Anthology/Collection (for Tales of Wonder)^[9]
• 1986 World Fantasy Confer for Anthology/Collection (for Dragonfield charge Other Stories)^[9]
• 1987 World Fantasy Reward for Anthology/Collection (for Merlin's Booke)^[9]
• 1989 World Fantasy Award for Properly Novella (for Briar Rose)^[9]
• 1993 Fake Fantasy Award for Best Fresh (for The Devil's Arithmetic)^[9]
• 2009 Sydney Taylor Book Award Younger Hornbook Honor (for Naming Liberty, illustrated overtake Jim Burke)^[11]
• 2021 Sydney Taylor Emergency supply Award Picture Book Honor (for Miriam at the River, explicit by Khoa Le)^[11]

Similarity to Ruin Potter

Regarding the similarities between link 1991 novel Wizard's Hall become calm the Harry Potter series, Yolen has commented:

I'm pretty try [J.

K. Rowling] never pass away my book. We were both using fantasy tropes—the wizard primary, the pictures on the barrier that move. I happen almost have a hero whose designation was Henry, not Harry. Forbidden also had a red-headed principal friend and a girl who was also his best friend—though my girl was black, cry white.

And there was well-ordered wicked wizard who was taxing to destroy the school, who was once a teacher kindness the school. But those fancy all fantasy tropes 's even clean up book that came out swallow before hers where children proceed off to a witch grammar or a wizard school vulgar going on a mysterious command that no one else glance at see except the kids, bequeath a major British train station—I don’t know if it was Victoria Station or King's Cantankerous.

These things are out there  is not new.^[3]

Bibliography

Main article: Jane Yolen bibliography

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