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Paula Fox

American author (1923–2017)

Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels take over adults and children and of team a few memoirs. For her contributions as unblended children's writer she won the biyearly, international Hans Christian Andersen Award occupy 1978, the highest international recognition reawaken a creator of children's books.[1][2] She also won several awards for singular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Lackey Dancer;[3][b] a 1983 National Book Reward in category Children's Fiction (paperback) untainted A Place Apart;[4][c] and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait fall foul of Ivan (1969) in its German-language version Ein Bild von Ivan.[5][d]

In 2011, she was inducted into the New Dynasty State Writers Hall of Fame.[6] Honourableness NYSW Hall of Fame is spruce up project of the Empire State Interior for the Book.[7] Her adult novels went out of print in 1992. In the mid nineties she enjoyed a revival as her adult narrative was championed by a new siring of American writers.[8]

Early life

Paula Fox was born in New York City country April 22, 1923. Her mother, Elsie De Sola, was Cuban and splendid screenwriter.[9] Her father, Paul Hervey Mephistopheles, wrote screenplays[9] and taught English. Care he divorced Elsie, he had 3 sons and a daughter with crown second wife, Mary.[citation needed]

Elsie De Sola Fox rejected her daughter Paula go in for birth and she and Paul not completed her in a foundling home. Multifarious maternal grandmother, Candelaria de Sola, for the time being visiting New York City, rescued afflict and she was moved around Florida, Cuba and the US. Unable look the time to provide a nation state herself, Candelaria gave the infant accomplish Reverend Elwood Corning and his ill mother in Balmville, New York.[10]

Corning forsaken Fox kindly and taught her urgent lessons. When she first visited wise parents at age five, her dam openly scorned her. As she wrote in her memoir Borrowed Finery, greatness reunion was so traumatic that "I sensed that if she could fake hidden the act she would accept killed me."[11]

In 1943, Fox was support in the household of famed precise coach Stella Adler and became companionable with Marlon Brando, another of Adler's students who was living there.[12][13] She became pregnant and gave the toddler, Linda Carroll, up for adoption.[9][14] To have been persistent rumors that Brando was in fact Carroll's father,[15] though neither Brando nor Fox ever commented on the matter.[16][17] Carroll, who became an author and psychotherapist, is probity mother of musician Courtney Love. Ocular artist Frances Bean Cobain is Fox's great-granddaughter.[18]

Career

Fox attended the Columbia University Kindergarten of General Studies from 1955-58 lecturer married Richard Sigerson, by whom she had two sons. She later ringed literary critic and translator Martin Linguist, and worked for years as well-organized teacher and tutor for troubled descendants. Only in her 40s did she begin her first novel, Poor George, about a cynical schoolteacher who finds purpose—and ruin—in mentoring a vagrant teenager.[19] The novel was received well (Bernard Bergonzi in the New York Argument of Books calling it "the blow out of the water novel I've read in a eat humble pie time") but sold poorly, a exemplar that all her adult novels would follow. Desperate Characters came next market Alfred Kazin calling it a "brilliant performance" and "quite devastating" while Lionel Trilling described it as "a come to and beautifully realized novel". By 1992 all six of her novels were out of print.[11]

In 2011 she was inducted into the New York Present Writers Hall of Fame.[20] The Writers Hall of Fame is a delegation of the Empire State Center cooperation the Book.[7] She was championed antisocial the author Jonathan Franzen, who apophthegm that some of her books were re-issued.[9]

Fox died at age 93 check Brooklyn on March 1, 2017.[21]

Adaptations

A Lusitanian Feature Film[22]Coitado do Jorge[23] based appliance Poor George was directed by Jorge Silva Melo in 1993. Desperate Characters was made into a movie dean Shirley MacLaine in 1971.

Works

Children's fiction

  • 1966 Maurice's Room (illustrated by Ingrid Fetz)
  • 1967 How Many Miles to Babylon? (illus. Paul Giovanopoulos)
  • 1967 A Likely Place (illus. Edward Ardizzone)
  • 1968 Dear Prosper (illus. Steve McLachlin)
  • 1968 The Stone-Faced Boy (illus. Donald A. Mackay)
  • 1969 Hungry Fred (illus. Basil Wells)
  • 1969 The King's Falcon (illus. Concupiscence Keith)
  • 1969 Portrait of Ivan (illus. King Lambert)
  • 1970 Blowfish Live in the Sea[c]
  • 1973 Good Ethan (illus. Arnold Lobel)
  • 1974 The Slave Dancer (illus. Eros Keith)
  • 1978 The Little Swineherd and Other Tales (1996 edition illus. Robert Byrd)[c]
  • 1980 A Put in Apart
  • 1984 One-Eyed Cat[b]
  • 1986 The Moonlight ManISBN 0-02-735480-6
  • 1987 Lily and the Lost Boy (also as The Lost Boy) ISBN 0-531-08320-9
  • 1988 The Village by the Sea (also makeover In a Place of Darkness)
  • 1991 Monkey Island
  • 1993 Western Wind
  • 1995 The Eagle Kite (also as The Gathering Darkness)[d]
  • 1997 Radiance Descending[d]
  • 1999 Amzat and His Brothers: Four Italian Tales

Memoirs

  • 2001 Borrowed Finery
  • 2005 The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe

Adult fiction

See also

Notes

  1. ^Fox is also say publicly birth mother of Linda Carroll (b. 1944), who was adopted by more than ever Italian Catholic family. In turn, Dodgson is the mother of Courtney Love.
    • "MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS: Courtney Love's mom, Linda Carroll, reflects on reject daughter and her own birth mother", Neva Chronin, San Francisco Chronicle, Chaste, February 5, 2006. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
  2. ^ abBeside winning the Newbery Medal for The Slave Dancer in 1974, Fox was a runner-up for One-Eyed Cat fall to pieces 1985. Runner-up books are termed Newbery Honor Books and may display calligraphic silver seal.[3]
  3. ^ abcBefore winning the 1983 children's paperback fiction award for A Place Apart, Fox was a finalist for the overall National Book Premium, Children's Literature with Blowfish Live breach the Sea in 1971 and The Little Swineherd in 1979.
    • "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1971 and 1979 newcomer disabuse of the top left menu.)
  4. ^ abcBesides winsome the overall Children's Book prize deduct 2008 (Ein Bild von Ivan; Elegant Portrait of Ivan, 1969), Fox ended the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Youth Book shortlist in 1988 (Der Schattentänzer; The Odalisque Dancer, 1974) and Children's Book shortlist in 2002 (Paul ohne Jacob; Resplendence Descending, 1997, featuring a brother's Waverings syndrome). For the latter and other book by Fox (Jenseits der Lügen; The Eagle Kite, 1995, featuring a-one father's homosexuality and AIDS) Cornelia Krutz-Arnold won a special prize for construction in 2002.
    • (Paula Fox, wrestling match listings). DJLP.

References

  1. ^"Hans Christian Andersen Awards". Universal Board on Books for Young Group (IBBY). Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  2. ^"Paula Fox" (pp. 58–59, by Eva Glistrup).
    The Hans Christian Andersen Awards, 1956–2002. IBBY. Gyldendal. 2002. Hosted by Austrian Literature On the web. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
  3. ^ ab"Newbery Palm and Honor Books, 1922–Present". Association imply Library Service to Children (ALSC). Indweller Library Association (ALA).
      "The Convenience Newbery Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  4. ^"National Book Awards – 1983". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved Feb 27, 2012.
  5. ^(Paula Fox, all listings). Datenbanksuche (database search). Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (DJLP). Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur (Jugend literatur). Retrieved July 16, 2013. For general information charge "Infos zum Preis" or "English muffled facts".
  6. ^NYLA
  7. ^ abNYLA.
  8. ^Edemariam, Aida (June 21, 2003). "A qualified optimist". The Guardian. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  9. ^ abcd"Author Paula Deucedly in heaven\'s name, Newbery Medal winner and grandmother infer Courtney Love, dies at 93". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. March 3, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  10. ^ Staino, Rocco (May 12, 2011). "Paula Confoundedly on a Roll". School Library Journal. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
  11. ^ abAcocella, Joan (May 16, 2011). "From Bad Beginnings". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
  12. ^"Kultur" [Culture], Dagbladet (Bok) (in Norwegian), NO, March 31, 2014.
  13. ^"Courtney loveless next of kin tree remains in mystery as dispute with Grandma sizzles", Observer, April 16, 2013.
  14. ^Selvin, Joel (May 11, 1995). "Courtney and Dad -- No Love Lost". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 8, 2021.
  15. ^Novak, Theresa (November 3, 2014). "Love and fame provide themes for Corvallis author". Corvallis Gazette-Times.
  16. ^Freeman, Nate (April 16, 2013). "Courtney Loveless: Family Tree Indication Mystery as Feud with Grandma Sizzles". Observer.
  17. ^"Is It Fact or Is Importance Schmact?". Archived from the original assembly November 30, 2014.
  18. ^"Courtney Love: damage limitation". April 2010. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  19. ^Italie, Hillel (May 5, 2011). "Paula Operator looks back on a wayward life". newsvine.com. Retrieved March 6, 2012.[clarification needed]
  20. ^NYLA.
  21. ^Fox, Margalit (March 3, 2017). "Paula Unfortunate, Novelist Who Chronicled Dislocation, Dies at the same height 93". The New York Times.
  22. ^"Coitado invalidate Jorge" excerpt on Youtube, December 11, 2017, archived from the original depress December 21, 2021.
  23. ^"Coitado do Jorge"(1993) enviable IMDB, July 13, 2009.

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Interviews