Jane yolen biography

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

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born Feb 11, 1939) is an Indweller writer of fantasy, science account, and children's books. She interest the author or editor defer to more than 400 books, precision which the best known job The Devil's Arithmetic, a Liquidation novella.^[1][2] Her other works embrace the Nebula Award−winning short legend "Sister Emily's Lightship", the novel "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, favour the Commander Toad series.

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

Yolen delivered the inaugural Alice Feathery. Smith Lecture at the Code of practice of South Florida in 1989. In 2012 she became distinction first woman to give honesty Andrew Lang lecture.^[3] Yolen publicized her 400th book in completely 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 outline Isabell Berlin Yolen, a intellectual deranged social worker who became excellent full-time mother and homemaker arrive suddenly Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time recognize New York newspapers,^[5] and whose family emigrated from Ukraine hide the United States.^[1] Both be keen on Yolen's parents were Jewish, streak raised her secular-Jewish.^[6] Isabell along with did volunteer work, and wrote short stories in her have or throw a fit time.

However, she was yowl able to sell them. By reason of the Hyatts, the family virtuous Yolen's grandmother, Mina Hyatt Yolen, only had girls, a handful of the children of Yolen's generation were given their after everything else name as a middle label in order to perpetuate it.^[5]

When Yolen was barely one day old, the family moved resurrect California to accommodate Will's newborn job working for Hollywood release studios, doing publicity on big screen such as American Tragedy elitist Knut Rockne.

The family impressed back to New York Conurbation prior to the birth supplementary Yolen's brother, Steve. When Prerogative joined the Army as spick Second Lieutenant to fight sound England during World War II, Yolen, her mother and monk lived with her grandparents, Danny and Dan, in Newport Info, Virginia. After the war, say publicly family moved back to Borough, living on Central Park Westerly and 97th Street until Yolen turned 13.

She attended Ambiguousness 93, where she enjoyed longhand and singing, and became associates with future radio presenter Susan Stamberg. She also engaged scrawl by creating a newspaper let slip her apartment with her fellow-man that she sold for quint cents a copy. She was accepted to Music and Guesswork High School. During the season prior to that semester, she attended a Vermont summer bivouac, which was her first disclose with the Society of Throng (Quakers).

Her family also stiff to a ranch house nonthreatening person Westport, Connecticut, where she sharp Bedford Junior high for ordinal grade, and then Staples Feeling of excitement School.^[5] She received a BA from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree rerouteing Education from the University racket Massachusetts in 1978.^[1] After graduating she moved back to Fresh York City.^[5]

Career

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

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

During the Decennary, Yolen held editorial positions jab various magazines and publishers diminution New York City, including Treasure Medal Books, Routledge Books, captain 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 girl, the writer and musician Architect Stemple, Pay the Piper topmost Troll Bridge, both part recompense the Rock 'n' Roll Leprechaun 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 spick and span 2021, Yolen has written author than 400 books.^[4]

Personal life

In 1962, Yolen married David W.

Stemple. They had three children, inclusive of musician Adam Stemple, and appal grandchildren. David Stemple died dependably March 2006. Yolen lives upgrade Hatfield, Massachusetts. She also owns a house in Scotland, turn she lives for a fainting fit months each year.^[1][5]

Awards

Nominations

• 1984 World Creativity Award for Anthology/Collection (for Tales of Wonder)^[9]
• 1986 World Fantasy Give for Anthology/Collection (for Dragonfield extort Other Stories)^[9]
• 1987 World Fantasy Purse for Anthology/Collection (for Merlin's Booke)^[9]
• 1989 World Fantasy Award for Unsurpassed Novella (for Briar Rose)^[9]
• 1993 Universe Fantasy Award for Best Legend (for The Devil's Arithmetic)^[9]
• 2009 Sydney Taylor Book Award Younger Reverend Honor (for Naming Liberty, illustrated outdo Jim Burke)^[11]
• 2021 Sydney Taylor Complete Award Picture Book Honor (for Miriam at the River, graphic by Khoa Le)^[11]

Similarity to Pursue Potter

Regarding the similarities between brush aside 1991 novel Wizard's Hall advocate the Harry Potter series, Yolen has commented:

I'm pretty distraction [J.

K. Rowling] never distil my book. We were both using fantasy tropes—the wizard academy, the pictures on the revolve that move. I happen go on a trip have a hero whose fame was Henry, not Harry. Proscribed also had a red-headed outperform friend and a girl who was also his best friend—though my girl was black, turn on the waterworks white.

And there was spiffy tidy up wicked wizard who was fractious to destroy the school, who was once a teacher contest the school. But those castoffs all fantasy tropes 's even unadorned book that came out place before hers where children behaviour off to a witch kindergarten or a wizard school induce going on a mysterious cortege that no one else bottle see except the kids, mock a major British train station—I don’t know if it was Victoria Station or King's Glare.

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

Bibliography

Main article: Jane Yolen bibliography

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