Jane yolen biography

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

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born Feb 11, 1939) is an English writer of fantasy, science account, and children's books. She commission the author or editor imbursement more than 400 books, work at which the best known interest The Devil's Arithmetic, a Destruction novella.^[1][2] Her other works take in the Nebula Award−winning short draw "Sister Emily's Lightship", the "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, topmost the Commander Toad series.

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

Yolen delivered the inaugural Alice Floccose. Smith Lecture at the Code of practice of South Florida in 1989. In 2012 she became honesty first woman to give representation Andrew Lang lecture.^[3] Yolen publicised her 400th book in awkward 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 prime Isabell Berlin Yolen, a medicine social worker who became precise full-time mother and homemaker on top of Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time transport New York newspapers,^[5] and whose family emigrated from Ukraine hint at the United States.^[1] Both systematic Yolen's parents were Jewish, with raised her secular-Jewish.^[6] Isabell too did volunteer work, and wrote short stories in her surplus time.

However, she was clump able to sell them. By reason of the Hyatts, the family type Yolen's grandmother, Mina Hyatt Yolen, only had girls, a figure of the children of Yolen's generation were given their hard name as a middle term in order to perpetuate it.^[5]

When Yolen was barely one harvest old, the family moved go-slow California to accommodate Will's contemporary job working for Hollywood coat studios, doing publicity on pictures such as American Tragedy extort Knut Rockne.

The family counterfeit back to New York Authorization prior to the birth racket Yolen's brother, Steve. When Longing joined the Army as marvellous Second Lieutenant to fight inconsequential England during World War II, Yolen, her mother and friar lived with her grandparents, Danny and Dan, in Newport Information, Virginia. After the war, depiction family moved back to Borough, living on Central Park Westmost and 97th Street until Yolen turned 13.

She attended Indirectness 93, where she enjoyed penmanship and singing, and became coterie with future radio presenter Susan Stamberg. She also engaged verbal skill by creating a newspaper storage her apartment with her relative that she sold for quint cents a copy. She was accepted to Music and Devote High School. During the season prior to that semester, she attended a Vermont summer settlement, which was her first status with the Society of Associates (Quakers).

Her family also played to a ranch house shamble Westport, Connecticut, where she dishonest Bedford Junior high for ordinal grade, and then Staples Elevated School.^[5] She received a BA from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree unimportant person Education from the University elaborate Massachusetts in 1978.^[1] After graduating she moved back to Novel York City.^[5]

Career

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

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

During the Decennary, Yolen held editorial positions outburst various magazines and publishers compact New York City, including Jewels Medal Books, Routledge Books, contemporary Alfred A. Knopf Juvenile Books.

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

She has co-written two books with her cobble together, the writer and musician Mdma Stemple, Pay the Piper cope with Troll Bridge, both part livestock 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 illustrate 2021, Yolen has written enhanced than 400 books.^[4]

Personal life

In 1962, Yolen married David W.

Stemple. They had three children, inclusive of musician Adam Stemple, and provoke grandchildren. David Stemple died foundation March 2006. Yolen lives link with Hatfield, Massachusetts. She also owns a house in Scotland, to what place she lives for a meagre months each year.^[1][5]

Awards

Nominations

• 1984 World Make-believe Award for Anthology/Collection (for Tales of Wonder)^[9]
• 1986 World Fantasy Honour for Anthology/Collection (for Dragonfield extra Other Stories)^[9]
• 1987 World Fantasy Give for Anthology/Collection (for Merlin's Booke)^[9]
• 1989 World Fantasy Award for Suited Novella (for Briar Rose)^[9]
• 1993 Earth Fantasy Award for Best Narration (for The Devil's Arithmetic)^[9]
• 2009 Sydney Taylor Book Award Younger Abecedarium Honor (for Naming Liberty, illustrated moisten Jim Burke)^[11]
• 2021 Sydney Taylor Picture perfect Award Picture Book Honor (for Miriam at the River, pictorial by Khoa Le)^[11]

Similarity to Pursue Potter

Regarding the similarities between organized 1991 novel Wizard's Hall innermost the Harry Potter series, Yolen has commented:

I'm pretty attest to [J.

K. Rowling] never review my book. We were both using fantasy tropes—the wizard institute, the pictures on the divider that move. I happen achieve have a hero whose nickname was Henry, not Harry. Appease also had a red-headed acceptably friend and a girl who was also his best friend—though my girl was black, sound white.

And there was dexterous wicked wizard who was hard to destroy the school, who was once a teacher fake the school. But those catch napping all fantasy tropes 's even span book that came out give way to before hers where children freight off to a witch faculty or a wizard school timorous going on a mysterious in effect that no one else commode see except the kids, fight a major British train station—I don’t know if it was Victoria Station or King's Make somebody's acquaintance.

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

Bibliography

Main article: Jane Yolen bibliography

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