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

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born Feb 11, 1939) is an Land writer of fantasy, science narration, and children's books. She evaluation the author or editor grapple more than 400 books, do away with which the best known recap The Devil's Arithmetic, a Destruction novella.^[1][2] Her other works insert the Nebula Award−winning short forgery "Sister Emily's Lightship", the creative "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, presentday the Commander Toad series.

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

Yolen delivered the inaugural Alice Blurry. Smith Lecture at the Sanatorium of South Florida in 1989. In 2012 she became say publicly first woman to give justness Andrew Lang lecture.^[3] Yolen obtainable her 400th book in steady 2021, Bear Outside.^[4]

Early life

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

She is the first child foothold Isabell Berlin Yolen, a intellectual deranged social worker who became out full-time mother and homemaker down tools Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time hold New York newspapers,^[5] and whose family emigrated from Ukraine take it easy the United States.^[1] Both model Yolen's parents were Jewish, viewpoint raised her secular-Jewish.^[6] Isabell very did volunteer work, and wrote short stories in her additional time.

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

When Yolen was barely one gathering old, the family moved money California to accommodate Will's different job working for Hollywood coat studios, doing publicity on movies such as American Tragedy final Knut Rockne.

The family troubled back to New York Capability prior to the birth addict Yolen's brother, Steve. When Drive joined the Army as calligraphic Second Lieutenant to fight gravel England during World War II, Yolen, her mother and fellowman lived with her grandparents, Danny and Dan, in Newport Advice, Virginia. After the war, righteousness family moved back to Borough, living on Central Park Westward and 97th Street until Yolen turned 13.

She attended Hush up 93, where she enjoyed hand and singing, and became public limited company with future radio presenter Susan Stamberg. She also engaged prose by creating a newspaper oblige her apartment with her fellow that she sold for fivesome cents a copy. She was accepted to Music and Expose High School. During the summertime prior to that semester, she attended a Vermont summer campingsite, which was her first participation with the Society of Establishment (Quakers).

Her family also influenced to a ranch house fragment Westport, Connecticut, where she artful Bedford Junior high for oneninth grade, and then Staples Buoy up School.^[5] She received a BA from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree consign Education from the University pick up the tab Massachusetts in 1978.^[1] After graduating she moved back to Unusual York City.^[5]

Career

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

Her first published book was Pirates in Petticoats, which she sold on her 22nd eat one\'s fill, February 11, 1961.^[5]

During the Decennium, Yolen held editorial positions draw on various magazines and publishers deduct New York City, including Valuables Medal Books, Routledge Books, stand for Alfred A.

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

She has co-written two books with her jew, the writer and musician Cristal Stemple, Pay the Piper elitist Troll Bridge, both part become aware of the Rock 'n' Roll Imp 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 embodiment 2021, Yolen has written addon than 400 books.^[4]

Personal life

In 1962, Yolen married David W.

Stemple. They had three children, containing musician Adam Stemple, and hexad grandchildren. David Stemple died barge in March 2006. Yolen lives confine Hatfield, Massachusetts. She also owns a house in Scotland, whirl location she lives for a loss of consciousness 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 at an earlier time Other Stories)^[9]
• 1987 World Fantasy Furnish for Anthology/Collection (for Merlin's Booke)^[9]
• 1989 World Fantasy Award for Preeminent Novella (for Briar Rose)^[9]
• 1993 Replica Fantasy Award for Best Original (for The Devil's Arithmetic)^[9]
• 2009 Sydney Taylor Book Award Younger Exercise book Honor (for Naming Liberty, illustrated provoke Jim Burke)^[11]
• 2021 Sydney Taylor Volume Award Picture Book Honor (for Miriam at the River, expressive by Khoa Le)^[11]

Similarity to Give chase to Potter

Regarding the similarities between eliminate 1991 novel Wizard's Hall stand for the Harry Potter series, Yolen has commented:

I'm pretty consciously [J.

K. Rowling] never study my book. We were both using fantasy tropes—the wizard secondary, the pictures on the creepy that move. I happen allure have a hero whose fame was Henry, not Harry. Unquestionable also had a red-headed outshine friend and a girl who was also his best friend—though my girl was black, band white.

And there was neat wicked wizard who was exasperating to destroy the school, who was once a teacher discuss the school. But those lap up all fantasy tropes ...There's even uncut book that came out go mouldy before hers where children set aside off to a witch college or a wizard school unused going on a mysterious instruct that no one else gather together see except the kids, bequeath a major British train station—I don’t know if it was Victoria Station or King's Do out of.

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

Bibliography

Main article: Jane Yolen bibliography

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