Paula Fox (1923–2017)
Auteur van Duvelstoejager op een slavenschip
Over de Auteur
Paula Fox was born in Manhattan, New York on April 22, 1923. She briefly studied piano at the Juilliard School and spent 3 years at Columbia University but didn't graduate. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a salesgirl, a model, a worker in a rivet-sorting shop, a lathe operator at Bethlehem toon meer Steel, and a teacher of troubled children. She wrote books for children and adults. Her children's books included Maurice's Room, Traces, Blowfish Live in the Sea, One-Eyed Cat, and The Eagle Kite. She received the Newbery Medal for The Slave Dancer in 1974 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her body of children's work in 1978. Her books for adults include Poor George, The Widow's Children, A Servant's Tale, and The God of Nightmares. Desperate Characters was adapted into a film starring Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars. She also wrote two memoirs entitled Borrowed Finery and The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe. She died on March 1, 2017 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Paula Fox
The Newbery Award Library: Island of the Blue Dolphins/the Witch of Blackbird Pond/the Sign of the Beaver/One-Eyed… (1990) 6 exemplaren
Dear Prosper 1 exemplaar
Fox Paula 1 exemplaar
Great cloister : a lost canterbury tale : a history of the Canterbury cloister, constructed 1408-14, with some account… (2020) 1 exemplaar
Fox, Paula Archive 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Fox, Paula
- Geboortedatum
- 1923-22-04
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2017-03-01
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Columbia University
Julliard School - Beroepen
- novelist
children's book author
memoirist - Relaties
- Fox, Paul Hervey (father)
Carroll, Linda-2 (daughter)
Love, Courtney (granddaughter)
Greenberg, Martin (husband)
Greenberg, Clement (brother-in-law) - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2004)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (1978)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1972)
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