Paula Fox (1923–2017)
Auteur de Le voyage du négrier
A propos de l'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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Œuvres de 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 exemplaires
Dear Prosper 1 exemplaire
Fox Paula 1 exemplaire
Great cloister : a lost canterbury tale : a history of the Canterbury cloister, constructed 1408-14, with some account… (2020) 1 exemplaire
Fox, Paula Archive 1 exemplaire
Borrowed Finery by PAULA FOX (2002-08-01) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributeur — 72 exemplaires
How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Fox, Paula
- Date de naissance
- 1923-04-22
- Date de décès
- 2017-03-01
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Columbia University
Julliard School - Professions
- novelist
children's book author
memoirist - Relations
- Fox, Paul Hervey (father)
Carroll, Linda-2 (daughter)
Love, Courtney (granddaughter)
Greenberg, Martin (husband)
Greenberg, Clement (brother-in-law) - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2004)
- Prix et distinctions
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (1978)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1972)
Membres
Discussions
YA, girl visits aunt (& uncle?) by ocean, makes sand city à Name that Book (Mars 2013)
Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 42
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 8,023
- Popularité
- #3,020
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 141
- ISBN
- 421
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 8
Une mère tout puissante, qui a de l'emprise sur son entourage, se dessine peu à peu dans le récit.
Un lieu très confiné, l'hôtel où la mère et la fille se rencontrent avant le repas.
Récit subtil et cruel, très froid