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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.
Mar 9, 2017 · In a beautifully ambiguous moment at the end of “Desperate Characters,” Fox disentangles herself from the consciousness of the Bentwoods—they are in bed, asleep—and drifts to their window ...
Mar 3, 2017 · Paula Fox, a distinguished writer for children and adults whose work illuminated lives filled with loss, dislocation and abandonment, conditions she knew firsthand from a very early age, died on...
May 13, 2024 · Paula Fox (born April 22, 1923, Manhattan, New York, U.S.—died March 1, 2017, Brooklyn, New York) was an American author who wrote books for children and adults using a straightforward writing style that belied the turmoil below the surface.
Mar 4, 2001 · The author's name was Paula Fox. The story -- a ruthless, elegant portrayal of the social paranoia of a bourgeois Brooklyn couple named Sophie and Otto Bentwood...
Mar 7, 2017 · Paula Fox, author of many works of literature for children as well as a handful of brilliant adult novels and two memoirs, died this week in Brooklyn at the age of 93. Famously, though her novels were well-reviewed—particularly her 1970 magnum opus Desperate Characters —her work fell out of print in the early 1990s, and she was largely ...
Mar 7, 2017 · Paula Fox, prize-winning adult and children’s author, chronicler of abandonment, loss and desperation — of what happens when things break down — died last week at 93....
Mar 4, 2017 · Paula Fox, a prizewinning author who created high art out of imagined chaos in such novels as “Poor George” and “Desperate Characters” and out of the real-life upheavals in her memoir “Borrowed...
Mar 3, 2017 · Paula Fox, a prize-winning author who created high art out of imagined chaos in such novels as Poor George and Desperate Characters and out of real-life upheavals in her memoir, Borrowed Finery,...
Apr 5, 2017 · Paula Fox, who has died aged 93, was one of the most admired US children’s authors of the 1970s and 80s. The emotional depth of her stories brought her the Newbery medal in 1974 for The Slave ...
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