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Paula Fox
AuthorBooks · Second hand1923-2017
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
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About Paula Fox
Birth
1923
Death
2017
First book
1966
Years writing
45
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
Paula Fox was born in New York in 1923 and had a prolific career as a novelist and translator.
Her most recognized work is the historical novel The Slave Dancer, a benchmark in children's literature.
Throughout her life, she wrote a total of 93 works spanning various literary genres.
Her writing frequently focused on themes such as juvenile fiction and sibling dynamics.
The author left a significant literary legacy after her passing in 2017.
