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Yolen at the 2011BornJane Hyatt Yolen( 1939-02-11) February 11, 1939 (age 80)New York City, USOccupationWriter, poetNationalityAmericanAlma materSmith CollegePeriod1960s–presentGenreFantasy, science fiction,Notable awards2009WebsiteJane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than 350 books, of which the best known is, a Holocaust novella. Her other works include the -winning short story Sister Emily's Lightship, the novelette Lost Girls, the series and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. She has collaborated on works with all three of her children, most extensively with Adam Stemple.Yolen gave the lecture for the 1989, the inaugural year for the series. This lecture series is held at the School of Information 'to honor the memory of its first director, Alice Gullen Smith, known for her work with youth and bibliotherapy.' In 2012 she became the first woman to give the. Contents.Early life Jane Hyatt Yolen was born on February 11, 1939 at in.

She is the first child of Isabell Berlin Yolen, a psychiatric social worker who became a full-time mother and homemaker upon Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time for New York newspapers, and whose family emigrated from the Ukraine to the United States. Isabell also did volunteer work, and wrote short stories in her spare time.

However, she was not able to sell them. Because the Hyatts, the family of Yolen's grandmother, Mina Hyatt Yolen, only had girls, a number of the children of Yolen's generation were given their last name as a middle name in order to perpetuate it.When Yolen was barely one year old, the family moved to California to accommodate Will's new job working for Hollywood film studios, doing publicity on films such as American Tragedy.

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The family moved back to New York City prior to the birth of Yolen's brother, Steve. When Will joined the Army as a to fight in England during, Yolen, her mother and brother lived with her grandparents, Danny and Dan, in. After the war, the family moved back to Manhattan, living on and 97th Street until Yolen turned 13.

She attended, where she enjoyed writing and singing, and became friends with future radio presenter. She also engaged writing by creating a newspaper for her apartment with her brother that she sold for five cents a copy. She was accepted to. During the summer prior to that semester, she attended a Vermont, which was her first involvement with the (Quakers). Her family also moved to a ranch house in, where she attended Bedford Junior high for ninth grade, and then. She received a BA from in 1960 and a in Education from the in 1978. After graduating she moved back to New York City.

Career During the 1960s, Yolen held editorial positions at various magazines and publishers in New York City, including Gold Medal Books, Routledge Books, and Alfred A. Knopf Juvenile Books. From 1990 to 1996 she ran her own imprint, Jane Yolen Books, at.Although Yolen considered herself a poet, journalist and nonfiction writer, she became a children's book writer.

Her first published book was Pirates in Petticoats, which was published on her 22nd birthday.Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, Favorite Folktales From Around the World, Xanadu and Xanadu 2 are among the works that she has edited.Her book Naming Liberty tells the story of a Russian girl and, the designer of the.She has co-written two books with her son, the writer and musician, Pay the Piper and Troll Bridge, both part of the Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale series. She also wrote lyrics for the song 'Robin's Complaint,' recorded on the 1994 album by Stemple's band.Regarding the similarities between her novel and the series, Yolen has commented on, the author of that series:I'm pretty sure she never read my book. We were both using fantasy tropes—the wizard school, the pictures on the wall that move. I happen to have a hero whose name was Henry, not Harry. He also had a red-headed best friend and a girl who was also his best friend—though my girl was black, not white. And there was a wicked wizard who was trying to destroy the school, who was once a teacher at the school.

But those are all fantasy tropes.There's even a book that came out way before hers where children go off to a witch school or a wizard school by going on a mysterious train that no one else can see except the kids, at a major British train station—I don’t know if it was Victoria Station or King's Cross. These things are out there.This is not new.' Personal life In 1962, Yolen married David W. They had three children and six grandchildren. Stemple died in March 2006.

Yolen lives in Southern Massachusetts. She also owns a house in Scotland, where she lives for a few months each year. Awards. 1968 (for, illustrated by ). 1987 Special World Fantasy Award (for Favorite Folktales From Around the World). 1988 (for, illustrated by ). 1992 The Catholic Library Association's (for her body of children's literature).

1999 Nebula Award for Novelette (for 'Lost Girls'). 2009 at the 2010. A panel of judges selects about two people annually. 2017Nominations. 1984 World Fantasy Award for Anthology/Collection (for Tales of Wonder).

1986 World Fantasy Award for Anthology/Collection (for Dragonfield and Other Stories). 1987 World Fantasy Award for Anthology/Collection (for Merlin's Booke).

1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (for Briar Rose). 1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (for The Devil's Arithmetic)Bibliography. ^ Myman, Francesca (March 12, 2017). Archived from on February 14, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019. ^.

The Daily Beast. May 24, 2008. Archived from on January 14, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2018. ^. World Fantasy Convention. Archived from on December 1, 2010.

Retrieved September 24, 2013. ^ Adams, John Joseph; Barr Kirtley, David (January 23, 2013). 'Author Jane Yolen Talks Book Banning and Harry Potter'. ^ Yolen, Jane. Retrieved March 13, 2013.

Lipsig, Chuck (January 17, 2011). Green Man Review. Archived from on January 21, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2015. April 27, 2012, at the.

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Briar Rose By Jane Yolen Pdf Writer

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Once upon a time—sorry, we couldn't resist—there was a little old lady who was super into telling bedtime stories. Well, technically, it was just one bedtime story, but she must have told it at least a thousand times. Briar Rose, which was Grandma Gemma's remix of Sleeping Beauty, was beloved by her granddaughters—especially Becca, who is the baby in her family.Now 23, Becca's all grown up, and Grandma Gemma, who's in a nursing home, is nearing the end of her life. She seems taken with the notion that she herself is Briar Rose, and insists she really did come from a castle, just like in the story.Is this an old woman's ranting and raving? Becca doesn't think so. Gemma makes Becca solemnly swear to find the castle, which is her 'inheritance.'

Then she dies, so Becca's pretty much obligated to follow through on her promise.Becca gets to thinking about that bedtime story Grandma had told her so many times. There were a few minor details that werewell, kind of untraditional. What was up with the way that everyone in the entire kingdom fell asleep forever, for example? Shouldn't they have woken up at some point? And how come Becca never noticed how bizarre this bedtime story was until now?Briar Rose was a far cry from Goodnight Moon, that's for sure.When a box of Gemma's old things, including some photos and an immigration form, surface, Becca begins to wonder if Gemma's story could relate back to her experience in the Old World. The family had thought that Gemma, who was Jewish, came to the U.S. Before the beginning of World War II, but her documents suggest that she arrived in 1944.

So Becca heads to Poland to investigate further.Like you do.With Magda, her jolly Polish translator, Becca makes her way to Chelmno, a tiny town that was the site of a terrible extermination camp during the war. All of Gemma's clues point there, but it's literally a dead end: everyone says that no female Nazi prisoners made it out of Chelmno alive.But then Becca and Magda happen upon a man called Josef Potocki, who tells them that one woman did in fact make it out of Chelmno.

You'll never guess who!But based on the story so far, you should probably guess that it's Gemma.Josef, who is now a very old man, gives Becca the skinny on what really happened to Gemma, who had never told her family about her life in Europe. Turns out that he and a band of partisans rescued her from the extermination camp, where she was the sole survivor amongst thousands of Jews who were gassed to death. Lucky for Gemma, right?Josef tells Becca about his own experience as a gay man who was imprisoned in a work camp; Gemma's story as a Jewish woman who escaped death; and the story of Becca's grandfather, Avenger.The latter was not a Marvel superhero, we're. That would have been rad, though.Satisfied that she has fulfilled her promise to her grandmother, Becca heads back to the good ole USA, where she intends to lord her findings over her family, who all thought that she was crazy for believing Gemma. She also finds time to smooch her hot boss, who happens to be waiting for her at the airport.

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You just know they live happily ever after.