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Fox, Paula (Estate)
Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children’s writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children’s books. She also won several awards for particular children’s books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children’s Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
Agent: Christian Dittus
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Children’s Books
- A Likely Place
- A Place Apart
- Amzat and His Brothers
- Blowfish Live in the Sea
- Dear Prosper
- Good Ethan
- How Many Miles to Babylon?
- Hungry Fred
- Lily and the Lost Boy
- Maurice’s Room
- Monkey Island
- One-Eyed Cat
- Portrait of Ivan
- Radiance Descending
- The King’s Falcon
- The Little Swineherd and Other Tales
- The Moonlight Man
- The Slave Dancer
- The Stone-Faced Boy
- The Village by the Sea
- Western Wind
Adult Fiction
- A Servant’s Tale
- Circle and Straight Lines
- Desperate Characters
- Frieda in Taos
- News From the World (Stories)
- Poor George
- Tell Me that You Love Me, Junie Moon
- The Eagle Kite
- The God of Nightmares
- The Western Coast
- The Widow’s Children
Memoirs
- Borrowed Finery
- The Coldest Winter
