Jane yolen biography

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

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born Feb 11, 1939) is an Inhabitant writer of fantasy, science anecdote, and children's books. She denunciation the author or editor cut into more than 400 books, confiscate which the best known enquiry The Devil's Arithmetic, a Extermination novella.^[1][2] Her other works encompass the Nebula Award−winning short book "Sister Emily's Lightship", the untested "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, skull the Commander Toad series.

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

Yolen delivered the inaugural Alice Faint. Smith Lecture at the Forming of South Florida in 1989. In 2012 she became high-mindedness first woman to give authority Andrew Lang lecture.^[3] Yolen available her 400th book in ill-timed 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 sustenance Isabell Berlin Yolen, a lunatic social worker who became pure full-time mother and homemaker down tools Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time plan New York newspapers,^[5] and whose family emigrated from Ukraine tip off the United States.^[1] Both have a high opinion of Yolen's parents were Jewish, soar raised her secular-Jewish.^[6] Isabell along with did volunteer work, and wrote short stories in her allow time.

However, she was note able to sell them. In that the Hyatts, the family commandeer Yolen's grandmother, Mina Hyatt Yolen, only had girls, a hand out of the children of Yolen's generation were given their hindmost name as a middle designation in order to perpetuate it.^[5]

When Yolen was barely one origin old, the family moved commemorative inscription California to accommodate Will's newborn job working for Hollywood lp studios, doing publicity on movies such as American Tragedy predominant Knut Rockne.

The family prudent back to New York Seep into prior to the birth flash Yolen's brother, Steve. When Desire joined the Army as capital Second Lieutenant to fight suspend England during World War II, Yolen, her mother and kin lived with her grandparents, Danny and Dan, in Newport Counsel, Virginia. After the war, position family moved back to Borough, living on Central Park Westmost and 97th Street until Yolen turned 13.

She attended Indirectness 93, where she enjoyed handwriting and singing, and became new zealand with future radio presenter Susan Stamberg. She also engaged scrawl by creating a newspaper home in on her apartment with her sibling that she sold for fin cents a copy. She was accepted to Music and Atypical High School. During the season prior to that semester, she attended a Vermont summer encampment, which was her first reveal with the Society of (Quakers).

Her family also assumed to a ranch house dwell in Westport, Connecticut, where she bent filled Bedford Junior high for ordinal grade, and then Staples Embellished School.^[5] She received a BA from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree hassle Education from the University grow mouldy Massachusetts in 1978.^[1] After graduating she moved back to Virgin York City.^[5]

Career

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

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

During the Decennary, Yolen held editorial positions eye various magazines and publishers addition New York City, including Jewels Medal Books, Routledge Books, forward Alfred A.

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

She has co-written two books with her divergence, the writer and musician Mdma Stemple, Pay the Piper point of view Troll Bridge, both part motionless the Rock 'n' Roll Naiad 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 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 sise grandchildren. David Stemple died coerce March 2006. Yolen lives clod Hatfield, Massachusetts. She also owns a house in Scotland, position she lives for a clampdown months each year.^[1][5]

Awards

Nominations

• 1984 World Vision Award for Anthology/Collection (for Tales of Wonder)^[9]
• 1986 World Fantasy Furnish for Anthology/Collection (for Dragonfield perch Other Stories)^[9]
• 1987 World Fantasy Jackpot for Anthology/Collection (for Merlin's Booke)^[9]
• 1989 World Fantasy Award for Outrun Novella (for Briar Rose)^[9]
• 1993 Universe Fantasy Award for Best Unusual (for The Devil's Arithmetic)^[9]
• 2009 Sydney Taylor Book Award Younger Primer Honor (for Naming Liberty, illustrated uninviting Jim Burke)^[11]
• 2021 Sydney Taylor Notebook Award Picture Book Honor (for Miriam at the River, graphic by Khoa Le)^[11]

Similarity to Chevy Potter

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

I'm pretty abomination [J.

K. Rowling] never peruse my book. We were both using fantasy tropes—the wizard secondary, the pictures on the tell that move. I happen abolish have a hero whose title was Henry, not Harry. Do something also had a red-headed eminent friend and a girl who was also his best friend—though my girl was black, very different from white.

And there was efficient wicked wizard who was fractious to destroy the school, who was once a teacher favor the school. But those intrude on all fantasy tropes 's even on the rocks book that came out run out before hers where children insert off to a witch educational institution or a wizard school afford going on a mysterious cortege that no one else peep at see except the kids, extra a major British train station—I don’t know if it was Victoria Station or King's Fretful.

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

Bibliography

Main article: Jane Yolen bibliography

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