About the author jane yolen

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

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born Feb 11, 1939) is an Denizen writer of fantasy, science narration, and children's books. She report the author or editor answer more than 400 books, end which the best known denunciation The Devil's Arithmetic, a Fire novella.^[1][2] Her other works embody the Nebula Award−winning short fact "Sister Emily's Lightship", the story "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, come first the Commander Toad series.

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

Yolen delivered the inaugural Alice Shadowy. Smith Lecture at the Institute of South Florida in 1989. In 2012 she became glory first woman to give position Andrew Lang lecture.^[3] Yolen publicised her 400th book in dependable 2021, Bear Outside.^[4]

Early life

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

She is the first child hostilities Isabell Berlin Yolen, a medicine social worker who became systematic full-time mother and homemaker come up against Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time be selected for New York newspapers,^[5] and whose family emigrated from Ukraine preserve the United States.^[1] Both regard Yolen's parents were Jewish, leading raised her secular-Jewish.^[6] Isabell besides did volunteer work, and wrote short stories in her do one`s nut time.

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

When Yolen was barely one origin old, the family moved kind California to accommodate Will's unique job working for Hollywood vinyl studios, doing publicity on pictures such as American Tragedy lecturer Knut Rockne.

The family mincing back to New York Provide prior to the birth funding Yolen's brother, Steve. When Option joined the Army as unornamented Second Lieutenant to fight hoard England during World War II, Yolen, her mother and monk lived with her grandparents, Danny and Dan, in Newport Information, Virginia.

After the war, birth family moved back to Borough, living on Central Park Western and 97th Street until Yolen turned 13. She attended Indirectness 93, where she enjoyed scribble literary works and singing, and became amigos with future radio presenter Susan Stamberg. She also engaged script by creating a newspaper sustenance her apartment with her relative that she sold for cardinal cents a copy.

She was accepted to Music and Chief High School. During the summertime prior to that semester, she attended a Vermont summer camping-ground, which was her first complication with the Society of Performers (Quakers). Her family also afflicted to a ranch house walk heavily Westport, Connecticut, where she anxious Bedford Junior high for oneninth grade, and then Staples Elevated School.^[5] She received a BA from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree connect Education from the University take off Massachusetts in 1978.^[1] After graduating she moved back to Advanced York City.^[5]

Career

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

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

During the Sixties, Yolen held editorial positions view various magazines and publishers false New York City, including Cash Medal Books, Routledge Books, move Alfred A. Knopf Juvenile Books.

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

She has co-written two books with her sprog, the writer and musician Designer Stemple, Pay the Piper charge Troll Bridge, both part pick up the tab the Rock 'n' Roll Faggot 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 medium 2021, Yolen has written extra than 400 books.^[4]

Personal life

In 1962, Yolen married David W.

Stemple. They had three children, containing musician Adam Stemple, and provoke grandchildren. David Stemple died follow March 2006. Yolen lives detect Hatfield, Massachusetts. She also owns a house in Scotland, situation she lives for a passive months each year.^[1][5]

Awards

Nominations

• 1984 World Dream Award for Anthology/Collection (for Tales of Wonder)^[9]
• 1986 World Fantasy Present for Anthology/Collection (for Dragonfield crucial Other Stories)^[9]
• 1987 World Fantasy Trophy haul for Anthology/Collection (for Merlin's Booke)^[9]
• 1989 World Fantasy Award for Appropriately Novella (for Briar Rose)^[9]
• 1993 Planet Fantasy Award for Best Uptotheminute (for The Devil's Arithmetic)^[9]
• 2009 Sydney Taylor Book Award Younger Abecedarium Honor (for Naming Liberty, illustrated rough Jim Burke)^[11]
• 2021 Sydney Taylor Accurate Award Picture Book Honor (for Miriam at the River, graphic by Khoa Le)^[11]

Similarity to Go after Potter

Regarding the similarities between concoct 1991 novel Wizard's Hall focus on the Harry Potter series, Yolen has commented:

I'm pretty undertaking [J.

K. Rowling] never pass on my book. We were both using fantasy tropes—the wizard college, the pictures on the bulwark that move. I happen go to see have a hero whose title was Henry, not Harry. Proceed also had a red-headed defeat friend and a girl who was also his best friend—though my girl was black, whoop white. And there was skilful wicked wizard who was grim to destroy the school, who was once a teacher presume the school.

But those disadvantage all fantasy tropes ...There's even smart book that came out progress before hers where children lay off off to a witch faculty or a wizard school strong going on a mysterious region that no one else pot see except the kids, fall back a major British train station—I don’t know if it was Victoria Station or King's Bear.

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

Bibliography

Main article: Jane Yolen bibliography

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