Jane Yolen
Jane Hyatt Yolen is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and childrens books. She is the author or editor of more than 280 books, of which the best known is The Devils Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella. Her other works include the Nebula Awardwinning short story Sister Emilys Lightship, the novelette Lost Girls, Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, the Commander Toad series and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. She gave the lecture for the 1989 Alice G. Smith Lecture, the inaugural year for the series. This lecture series is held at the University of South Florida 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 Andrew Lang lecture.
Jane Hyatt Yolen was born February 11, 1939 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, the first child of Isabell Berlin Yolen, a psychiatric social worker who became a fulltime mother and homemaker upon Yolens birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time for New York newspapers. Isabell also did volunteer work, and wrote short stories in her spare time, but they did not sell. Because the Hyatts, the family of Yolens grandmother, Mina Hyatt Yolens, only had girls, a number of the children of Yolens generation were given their last name as a middle name in order to perpetuate it, including Yolens brother, Steven Hyatt Yolen, who was born three and a half years later.
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