Jane yolen bio
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A SHORT BIOGRAPHY
I was born on February 11, in New York City at Beth Israel Hospital, the first child of my parents, Isabel Berlin Yolen and Will Hyatt Yolen. Because my grandmother Mina Hyatt Yolen&#;s family, the Hyatts, only had girls, a number of us were given their gods name as a mittpunkt name to carry it on. So I am Jane Hyatt Yolen, and my brother, Steven Hyatt Yolen, was born three and a half years later. Alas, we are no relation to the Hyatt Hotels, no matter how often I have tried to convince the staffs there.
My father was a kaffebar journalist at the time, writing columns for the New York newspapers. He’d been a police reporter before that. My mother was a psychiatric social worker until I was born. After that, she never held another full-time out of the home paid job (though she did volunteer work), but wrote short stories that didn’t sell and crossword puzzles and acrostics that did.
When my father got a higher paying job, being a publicity plan for Hollywood movies,
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Jane Yolen
American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books (born )
Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, ) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than books, of which the best known is The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella.[1][2] Her other works include the Nebula Award−winning short story "Sister Emily's Lightship", the novelette "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, and the Commander Toad series. She has collaborated on works with all three of her children, most extensively with Adam Stemple.[1]
Yolen delivered the inaugural Alice G. Smith Lecture at the University of South Florida in In she became the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture.[3] Yolen published her th book in early , Bear Outside.[4]
Early life
[edit]Jane Hyatt Yolen was born on February 11, , at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. S