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'''Nancy Willard''' (born June 26, 1936, in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]) is an award-winning children's author, poet, and novelist. In 1982, she received the [[Newbery Medal]] for ''[[A Visit to William Blake's Inn]]''. She lives currently lives in [[Poughkeepsie (city), New York|Poughkeepsie]], [[New York]] where she lectures at [[Vassar College]].<ref>[http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/91/1576/index.html]</ref>
'''Nancy Willard''' (born June 26, 1936, in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]) is an award-winning children's author, poet, and novelist. In 1982, she received the [[Newbery Medal]] for ''[[A Visit to William Blake's Inn]]''. She lives currently lives in [[Poughkeepsie (city), New York|Poughkeepsie]], [[New York]] where she lectures at [[Vassar College]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Authors:Nancy Willard |url=http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/91/1576/index.html |publisher=Time Warner Bookmark |accessdate=2 July 2006 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050922110333/http://twbookmark.com/authors/91/1576/index.html |archivedate=22 September 2005}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 07:58, 9 January 2012

Nancy Willard (born June 26, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an award-winning children's author, poet, and novelist. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She lives currently lives in Poughkeepsie, New York where she lectures at Vassar College.[1]

Biography

She was educated at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award and received a B.A. and a later on a Ph.D. She also studied at Stanford University, where she received her M.A.[2]

Her first novel, Things Invisible to See (1985), is set in her home town of Ann Arbor in the 1940s; two brothers become involved with a paralyzed young woman, and it "ends with a baseball game that anticipates the film Field of Dreams in its player lineup of baseball luminaries. Susan Fromberg Schaeffer said the novel "has the quality of a fairy tale ... a paradigm of life as a Manichean conflict between good and evil.'"[3]

Awards

Selected bibliography

Children's literature

  • Sailing to Cythera and other Anatole Stories - Book One of the Anatole Trilogy (1974)
  • The Merry History of a Christmas Pie: With a Delicious Description of a Christmas Soup (1974)
  • The Snow Rabbit (1975)
  • The Well-Mannered Balloon (1976)
  • Shoes Without Leather (1976)
  • Simple Pictures Are Best (1977)
  • Strangers' Bread (1977)
  • The Highest Hit (1978)
  • The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole - Book Two of the Anatole Trilogy (1979)
  • Papa's Panda (1979)
  • The Marzipan Moon (1981)
  • A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (1981), Newbery Medal recipient
  • Uncle Terrible: More Adventures of Anatole - Book Three of the Anatole Trilogy (1982)
  • The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon (1983)
  • Night Story (1986)
  • The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson (1987)
  • The Mountains of Quilt (1987)
  • Firebrat (1988)
  • East of the Sun and West of the Moon: A Play (1989)
  • Ballad of Biddy Early (1989)
  • The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake (1990)
  • Pish, Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch (1991)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1992)
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1993)
  • A Starlit Somersault Downhill (1993)
  • An Alphabet of Angels, (1994, also illus.)
  • Gutenberg's Gift (1995)
  • Among Angels, with Jane Yolen (1995)
  • The Good-Night Blessing Book, (1996, also illus.)
  • Cracked Corn and Snow Ice Cream: A Family Almanac (1997)
  • The Magic Cornfield, (1997, also illus.)
  • The Tortilla Cat (1998)
  • The Tale I Told Sasha (1999)
  • Shadow Story (1999)
  • The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Cafe (2001)
  • Cinderella's Dress (2003)
  • The Mouse, the Cat, and Grandmother's Hat (2003)
  • The Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem by John Milton (2004)
  • Sweep Dreams (2005)
  • The Flying Bed (2007)
  • A Starlit Snowfall (2011)

Poetry

  • In His Country (1966)
  • Skin of Grace (1967)
  • A New Herball (1968)
  • Carpenter of the Sun (1974)
  • 19 Masks for the Naked Poet (1984)
  • Household Tales of Moon and Water (1987)
  • Water Walker (1989)
  • Poem Made of Water (1992)
  • Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems (1996)
  • In the Salt Marsh (2004)
  • Diana in Sight (2009)

Fiction

  • The Lively Anatomy of God: Stories (1968)
  • Childhood of the Magician (1973)
  • Things Invisible to See (1985)
  • Sister Water (1993)
  • The Doctrine of the Leather-Stocking Jesus: Collected Stories (2007)

References

  1. ^ "Authors:Nancy Willard". Time Warner Bookmark. Archived from the original on 22 September 2005. Retrieved 2 July 2006.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ Clarence A. Andrews, Michigan in Literature (Wayne State University Press, 1992: ISBN 0814323685), p. 219.
  4. ^ "NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers" (PDF). National Endowment for the Arts. March 2006. Retrieved 9 January 2012.

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